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Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness /

Link, Kurt, 1937-

Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness / Kurt Link. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007. - xiv, 179 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-175) and index.

Definitions and sources -- Vectors -- History of diseases -- New diseases are increasing -- How resurgent diseases make a comeback -- Zoonosis -- Diseases of affluence -- Bioterrorism and agroterrorism -- Environmental pathogens -- New diseases -- Diseases of unknown cause that may be infectious -- Greenhouse effect -- Prevention -- Applied research -- Public health.

9780275991265 (alk. paper) 0275991261 (alk. paper)

2007003041

GBA737668 bnb

101297940 DNLM 013746830 Uk


Emerging infectious diseases.
Communicable diseases--Transmission.
Environmentally induced diseases.
Globalization--Health aspects.
Diseases--History.
Communicable Diseases, Emerging.
Environmental Pollution--adverse effects.
Greenhouse Effect.
Internationality.

RA643 / .L56 2007

362.196/9

2007 G-104 WA 110 / L756u 2007

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