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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 303 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished each week; whole families were destroyed in a matter of days; so many died so quickly that the culturally taboo practice of cremation had to be instituted to dispose...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE follows health officials tracking the deadly disease and trying to stop its rampant spread. The film shows how the outbreak is endangering health- care workers, overwhelming hospitals and getting worse. Also, FRONTLINE investigates accounts that members of the Nigerian military have been committing atrocities in the fight against Boko Haram - the Islamist militants who kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in April. Two timely and late-breaking...
Author
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Vivid text details how early studies of the spread of disease led to vaccines and medications that can halt pandemics. It also puts a spotlight on the brilliant scientists who made these advances possible. A case study on the current Ebola outbreak is also included."--Publisher's website.
6) The hot zone
Author
Series
Dark biology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this virus. The book tells this dramatic story, giving an account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race.
Author
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Dr. Kent and Amber Brantly's call to serve their neighbors, as well as Kent's fight for life against Ebola, and Amber's struggle to support him from half a world away. Dr. Brantly reminds readers of the risk, honor, and joy to be known when God and others are served without reservation.
9) The Hot Zone
Author
Publisher
Random
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
300p., ill., 25cm.
Language
English
10) Ebola
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents facts about Ebola, including how it spreads, its source, and how it can be treated.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a dreaded outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus swept through a remote region of Zaire in May 1995, Nova was the only film crew premitted to cover the outbreak. The Ebola plague kills a very high percentage of its victims (77% in Kikwit), often by dissolving their internal organs and connective tissue. Learn how disease specialists traced the origins of the outbreak.
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the producers of Blackfish, this is the story of the doctors and nurses who risked everything to defeat the deadliest epidemic of our time, the recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Investigate the rise of spillover viruses like Zika, Ebola and Nipah that can make the leap from animals to humans. Find out how human behaviors spread diseases and what science can do to anticipate and prevent epidemics around the world.
16) Outbreak
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The vivid, inside story of how the Ebola outbreak began and why it wasn't stopped before it was too late. With exclusive access to key global decision-makers and health responders, and gripping accounts of victims from the slums of Monrovia to the jungles of Guinea, Outbreak exposes tragic missteps in the response to the epidemic.
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the Ebola pandemic was sweeping across West Africa in the spring of 2014, one organization was willing to step up and fully commit its people and resources to provide comfort, compassion, and care to the hurting people of Africa; all in the Name of Jesus. When the deadly virus infected one of its own medical personnel, the epic crisis truly hit home for Samaritan's Purse and its leader Franklin Graham.
18) Outbreak
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam Daniels is a take-charge army virologist trying to stave off global biological meltdown. A rare killer virus from the jungles of Zaire has taken hold in a California community. Its mortality rate is 100%. And some say the only way to stop its spread is to firebomb the town and everyone in it.
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