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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication 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:
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.
Item type: Book
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MAIN LIBRARY Noumea 362.196 9 LIN 2007 Available 30988

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.