Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness

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

Author/creator	Link, Kurt, 1937-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
Description	xiv, 179 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Communicable Diseases, Emerging. Environmental Pollution--adverse effects. Greenhouse Effect. Internationality. Disease--etiology. Public Health.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-175) and index.
LCCN	2007003041
ISBN	9780275991265 :
ISBN	0275991261

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Laupus	Books - Stacks	WA 110 L756U 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold