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20 juin 2013

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EAN13

9781406268591

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

29 Mo

Can you imagine what our lives would be like after an outbreak of super-plague? How would people respond to the danger and how would medical professionals cope? What would be the threats to public order and to the things we take for granted, such as the supply of food and energy? This book traces the possible consequences of a global event on this scale, with ideas and evidence based on similar scenarios that are a part of fact and fiction.

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

20 juin 2013

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781406268591

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

29 Mo

E R . . . ORLDAFT A W

SUPER-PLAGUE Anne Rooney

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Edited by Andrew Farrow, Adrian Vigliano, and Vaarunika Dharmapala Designed by Philippa Jenkins Original illustrations © Capstone Global Library Limited 2013 Illustrated by HL Studios and Alvaro Fernandez Villa Advocate-Art pp4-5 Picture research by Mica Brancic Printed and bound in China

We would like to thank David Wright for his invaluable help in the preparation of this book.

ISBN 978 1 406 26094 6 17 16 15 14 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Rooney, Anne. A world after super-plague. 362.1’969-dc23 A full catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy p 35 (© AF archive); Corbis pp 7 (Sygma/© Patrick Robert), 22 (politika/© Dung Vo Trung), 29 (Reuters/© Claudia Daut), 34 (epa/© Wang Ying), 40 (© Corbis), 42 (© Bo Zaunders), 44 (Science Faction/© Centers for Disease Control - digital version copyright Science Faction), 47 (epa/© Ricardo Castelan); Getty Images pp 9 (Photographer’s Choice/Bruno De Hogues), 12 (PhotoQuest), 15 (Chung Sung-Jun), 16 (Hulton Archive), 26 (IFRC/Japanese Red Cross/Toshirharu Kato), 39 (The Bridgeman Art Library/Spanish School), 45 (AFP Photo/Sonny Tumbelaka); Photoshot pp 30 (WpN/Je Topping), 32 (© UPPA), 37 (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali); Reuters p 11 (Nguyen Huy Kham); Shutterstock p 43 (Taras Kolomiyets); The Picture Desk p 49 (The Kobal Collection/ Warner Bros./Barry Wetcher).

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Quote on p 17: From THE PLAGUE by Albert Camus, translated by Stuart Gilbert, translation copyright 1948, copyright renewed 1975 by Stuart Gilbert. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc. for permission.

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CONTENTS

PROLOGUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

EMERGING SUPER-PLAGUE: DAYS 1–10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

STOP THE SPREAD: DAYS 11–33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

HEALTHCARE UNDER PRESSURE: DAY 34 ONWARDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

LIVING THROUGH IT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

AFTERMATH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

WRITE YOUR OWN STORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

TIMELINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

FIND OUT MORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Some words are printed in bold,like this. You can find out what they mean by looking in the glossary.

Prologue: In 2017 a super-plague starts unnoticed, but quickly spreads. Unchecked, it could ravage the world.

DAY 1: On a small farm in Dinh To, Vietnam, Hong falls sick…

DAY 5: Tragically, the girl does not recover, and only five days later her funeral is held.

Bao is too sick to come. We pray that he will be better soon.

I don’t feel well, Bao. Can you take the geese home?

So many people in the village are sick. What is happening?

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