Emerging Biological Threats: A Reference Guide - Hardcover

Callahan, Joan R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313372098 ISBN 13: 9780313372094

Verlag: Greenwood, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

An engaging, nontechnical discussion of the infectious diseases and other biological threats that pose the highest risk to humans, presented in the context of relevant environmental and sociological trends.

What biological agents should we truly be afraid of? Which have garnered more attention than they warrant? Emerging Biological Threats: A Reference Guide is the antidote for the confusion surrounding the potentially devastating impact of pathogens on the human community. Written by a frontline professional in epidemiology, it is the most authoritative yet engagingly written resource available on the real risks we face, and the countermeasures used to confront them.

Emerging Biological Threats provides the information needed to understand significant direct threats to human health, as well as those that impact us indirectly by destroying livestock and crops. Focused primarily on the United States, it offers science-based yet accessible explorations of HIV, influenza, drug-resistant pathogens, tuberculosis, meningitis, and more. In addition, the book assesses current predictions about the future spread of various diseases as a result of climate change and overpopulation. The book concludes with chapters on relevant environmental and sociological trends and a discussion of current public health strategy.

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Joan R. Callahan

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• Verlag: Greenwood
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0313372098
• ISBN 13: 9780313372094
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
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