Pandemics what everyone needs to know
"From HIV to H1N1, pandemics pose one of the greatest threats to global health in the twenty-first century. Defined as epidemics of infectious disease across large geographic areas, pandemics can disseminate globally with incredible speed as humans and goods move faster than ever before. While restr...
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Oxford University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Infection and immunity
- Pandemics, epidemics, and outbreaks
- The SARS warning
- Tuberculosis and influenza
- Fledermaus to field mouse
- Virus vectors
- Single-host human pathogens
- HIV/AIDS
- Mad cows and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Economics and the human-animal equation
- Bioterrorism
- Protecting humanity from and during pandemics.
