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Featuring 15 infectious diseases--eight bacteria, six viruses, and a parasite--and one friendly fungus, this book explores significant medical themes and highlights the effect micro-organisms have on modern life. Hilarious, informative, and deeply moving, it discusses each disease while weaving true stories of patients and their families and the difficulties doctors face. Touching upon the Swine Flu, Golden Staph, SARS, Hepatitis, and HIV, this account teaches crucial lessons about public health and the human experience of disease.

A woman s innocuous cold symptoms mask a debilitating rare tick infection. A young man develops shingles, then suffers blinding head pain later in life. After years of frustration, a family eradicates head lice forever. Leading infectious diseases specialist Frank Bowden sheds light the everyday illnesses that affect most of us (colds, sore throats), and the more serious issues that keep us awake at night (antibiotic resistance, Ebola). He busts myths, explores symptoms, treatments and covers the latest medical breakthroughs, and the big issues affecting public health. Bowden offers...

This book describes the research of Bowden, Yoffe and their collaborators on explosive initiation.