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          Names: Goldsmith, Connie, 1945– author.
        
        
          Title: Pandemic : how climate, the environment, and superbugs increase the risk / by
        
        
          Connie Goldsmith.
        
        
          Description: Minneapolis, MN : Twenty-First Century Books, a division of Lerner
        
        
          Publishing Group, Inc., [2018] | Audience: Ages 13–18. | Audience: Grades 9 to 12. |
        
        
          Includes bibliographical references and index.
        
        
          Identifiers: LCCN 2017043693 (print) | LCCN 2017046752 (ebook) |
        
        
          ISBN 9781541524767 (eb pdf) | ISBN 9781512452150 (lb : alk. paper)
        
        
          Subjects: LCSH: Epidemics—Juvenile literature. | Communicable diseases—Climatic
        
        
          factors—Juvenile literature. | Nature—Effect of human beings on—Juvenile
        
        
          literature.
        
        
          Classification: LCC RA653.5 (ebook) | LCC RA653.5 .G65 2018 (print) | DDC
        
        
          614.4—dc23
        
        
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          Manufactured in the United States of America
        
        
          1-42909-26514-1/8/2018