Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness / Kurt Link.
Material type: TextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.Description: xiv, 179 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780275991265 (alk. paper)
- 0275991261 (alk. paper)
- 362.196/9 22
- RA643 .L56 2007
- 2007 G-104
- WA 110
- 44.75
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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.