Pandemic Survival: It's Why You're Alive    by Ann Love, Jane Drake & Bill Slavin Order:  USA  Can Tundra, 2013 (2013) Hardcover     Reviewed by Hilary Williamson Pandemic Survival: It's Why You're Alive, written by Ann Love and Jane Drake, and illustrated by Bill Slavin, takes a detailed look at the world's pandemic past, and our pandemic future. Chapters address Prevention and Cure ('Everyone alive now is a descendant of survivors'); Ancient Stories, Modern Diagnoses; The Middle Ages (600-1500); The Age of Discovery (1500-1800); The Industrial Age (1800-1900); Antibiotics Before and After; and Global Village. In each, sidebars provide interesting details like Bacteria Fact-eria and Connecting the Bites. The authors tell us about pandemics in history - what we know and what we guess - and how early cultures and physicians reacted to them. We read about outbreaks of bubonic plague; about the smallpox pandemic in the New World; about key innovators like the world's first epidemiologist, John Snow, who showed that cholera was carried by drinking water; about the Spanish flu, 'the worst flu pandemic in history'; and the modern plague, AIDS. Finally, the last chapter, Global Village, addresses more recent pandemic panics like the SARS one in 2003; biological warfare; and three big lessons to be learned from pandemics. The book ends with a Glossary of terms like pathogen and vector. Though this informative volume is aimed at ages 9 to 12, older teens and adults will also be intrigued by it, particularly by its historical vignettes. Note: Opinions expressed in reviews and articles on this site are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of BookLoons. Find more Teens books on our Shelves or in our book Reviews