The Science of a Pandemic

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Published in the United States of America by Cherry Lake Publishing Ann Arbor Michigan www cherrylakepublishing com Consultants Michael A Stoto Professor of Health Systems Administration and Population Health Georgetown University School of Nursing Health Studies Marla Conn ReadAbility Inc Editorial direction Red Line Editorial Book design and illustration Design Lab Photo Credits Hinochika Shutterstock Images cover 1 National Museum of Health and Medicine AP Images 5 claffra Shutterstock Images 9 CDC 13 top left 13 top right 13 bottom left 13 bottom right 29 Maps com Corbis 15 Bettmann Corbis 18 BSIP UIG Getty Images 21 National Cancer Institute Science Faction Corbis 25 Shehzad Noorani Canadian Press AP Images 27 Copyright 2015 by Cherry Lake Publishing All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Koontz Robin Michal author The science of a pandemic by Robin Koontz pages cm Disaster science Audience Age 11 Audience Grades 4 to 6 Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-1-63137-625-2 hardcover ISBN 978-1-63137-670-2 pbk ISBN 978-1-63137-715-0 pdf ebook ISBN 978-1-63137-760-0 hosted ebook 1 Epidemics Juvenile literature 2 Communicable diseases Epidemiology Juvenile literature 3 Communicable diseases Prevention Juvenile literature I Title RA653 5 K66 2015 614 4 dc23 2014004031 Cherry Lake Publishing would like to acknowledge the work of The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Please visit www p21 org for more information Printed in the United States of America Corporate Graphics Inc July 2014 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Robin Koontz is an award-winning author and illustrator of a wide variety of books and articles for children and young adults In 2011 she was an Animal Behavior Society Outstanding Children’s Book Award Finalist Koontz lives with her husband in the Coast Range of western Oregon