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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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They may have escaped the maze but Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
2) Quarantine
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles fire station, television reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman, go out on a routine 911 call. It takes them to a small apartment building where they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams. Something unknown has infected a woman living in the building. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, the residents of the building, along with the news...
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Series
Uzumaki volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
208 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Kur¡ozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: "uzumaki," the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world which causes the inhabitants to go mad.
5) Clay's ark
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Series
Patternists volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a violent near-future, Asa Elias Doyle and her companions encounter an alien life form so heinous and destructive, they exile themselves in the desert so as not to contaminate other humans. Resisting the compulsion to infect others is mental agony, but succumbing would mean relinquishing their humanity and free will. Desperate, they kidnap a doctor and his two daughters as they cross the wasteland -- and, in doing so, endanger the world."--bn.com...
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Series
Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
vii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With the recent discovery that amyloid beta protein, the cause of plaques in Alzheimer's disease, is an antimicrobial peptide produced in response to infection, many researchers are focusing on the role infection plays in the development of Alzheimer's disease. Brain studies have also identified a number of different viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa in the postmortem brain specimens of Alzheimer's patients. Infection (particularly chronic,...
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Series
Piggy volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
148 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
There is a mystery to be solved, a cure to be found, and a horde of Infected to escape! Welcome to the bone chilling, pulse-pounding world of PIGGY, the survival-horror game that will keep you up at night. With the Infected hot on their heels and growing in number, a small band of survivors must come together and try to stop their island from being overrun. But is there really a cure for whatever is turning people into mindless monsters? Or are they...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xvi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the mysterious world of the microbes that cause infection and disease in people. Understand what your doctor means with the words "contagious," "virulent," "E. coli," and other information on germs. Microbiologist Anne Maczulak gives you a tour of a microbial cell, points out the ways that the body defends against infection, and highlights the tactics used by disease-causing microbes to evade those defenses! In this book, you will also...
12) The Zika virus
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
104 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although the Zika virus was identified in the late 1940s, a mass outbreak did not occur until recently. Because most of the world is not immune to this virus, it spreads very quickly. Readers discover the history of the Zika virus, facts about its recent spread, the symptoms of the disease, and ways people can protect themselves against it. Full-color photographs and engaging sidebars augment this detailed discussion of a disease that is still mysterious...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvii, 222 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a massive outbreak of drug-resistant microbes. Deadly Outbreaks...
Author
Series
Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
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pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Wolf Squadron must clear the assault carrier USS Iwo Jima of those infected by a biological zombie plague before the trapped Marines and sailors succumb to starvation. If Wolf Squadron can accomplish that task, an even tougher trial awaits: an apocalyptic battle to win a new dawn for humanity.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
xiv, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with a dramatic account of the SARS pandemic at the start of the 21st century, Crawford takes us back in time to follow the interlinked history of microbes and man, taking an up-to-date look at ancient plagues and epidemics and exploring how changes in the way humans have lived throughout history have made us vulnerable to microbe attack. As we moved from hunter-gatherers to farmers to city-dwellers, microbes like malaria and smallpox moved...
18) Airborne
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Heather Lawrence's long-awaited vacation to Salzburg wasn't supposed to go like this. Mere hours into the transatlantic flight, the Houston FBI agent is awakened when passengers begin exhibiting horrific symptoms of an unknown infection. As the virus quickly spreads and dozens of passengers fall ill, Heather fears she's witnessing an epidemic similar to ones her estranged husband studies for a living-but this airborne contagion may have been deliberately...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
160 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book is a primer for those concerned about Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases (OTBDs). The book first introduces the reader to ticks and the main species of bacteria that causes Lyme disease in North America - Borrelia burgdorferi. The book also features tips on how to prevent tick bites and remove ticks, as well as valuable information about symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme and OTBDs. The book has an extensive list of resources...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley explore the history and future of quarantine, from the Black Death to Big Data"--
Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. Manaugh and Twilly track the history and future of...
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