Outbreak alert : responding to the increasing threat of infectious diseases /
Jason Eberhart-Phillips.
- Oakland, Calif : New Harbinger Pub., c2000.
- ix, 298 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-287) and index.
Introduction to emergence -- Examples of emergence -- Travel and commerce -- Changing human demographics -- Human behavior -- Technology and industry -- Ecological changes: land use and climate -- Microbial adaptation and change -- Antimicrobial resistance -- Breakdown of the public health infrastructure -- Biological terrorism -- Responding to the threats -- Appendix: On-line resources in emerging infectious diseases.
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Communicable diseases--Popular works Epidemiology--Popular works