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.