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

By:

Link, Kurt, 1937-

Publication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.Description: xiv, 179 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

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

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

362.196/9 22

LOC classification:

RA643 .L56 2007

NLM classification:

2007 G-104
WA 110

Other classification:

44.75

Online resources:

Table of contents only

Contents:

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.

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

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