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Contagion and chaos

by Andrew T. Price-Smith · 2008

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An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease.

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adult
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medium · 294 pages

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