Animal viruses and humans, a narrow divide : how lethal zoonotic viruses spill over and threaten us / Warren A. Andiman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andiman, Warren, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zoonoses--Epidemiology--Popular works.

Zoonoses.

Zoonoses--epidemiology.

Zoonoses--Epidemiology.

Medical Subjects:

Zoonoses--epidemiology.

Genre:

Popular works.

Physical Description:

xv, 217 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Paul Dry Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2018.

Summary:

"To reproduce promiscuously and to wreak havoc wherever they can find a home," this is the raison d'être of viruses, writes Dr. Warren Andiman. an HIV/AIDS researcher who has been on the front lines battling infectious diseases for over forty years, hi Animal Viruses and Humans: A Narrow Divide, Andiman traces the history of eight zoonotic viruses-deadly microbes that have made the leap directly from animals to human populations: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MEKS) · Swine influenza · Hantavirus · Monkeypox · Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) · Rabies · Ebola · Henipaviruses (Nipah and Ilendra). He also illustrates the labor intensive and fascinating detective work that infectious disease specialists must do to uncover the source of an outbreak. Andiman also looks to the future, envisioning the effects on zoonoses (diseases caused by zoonotic viruses) of climate change, microenvironmental damage, population shifts, and globalization. He reveals the steps that we can, and must, take to stem the spread of animal viruses, explaining, "The zoonoses I've chosen to write about ... are meant to describe only a small sample of what is already out there but, more menacingly, what is inevitably on its way, in forms we can only imagine." Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Millions of Tiny Crowns Wreak Havoc in Two Kingdoms (Or Never Wipe a Camel's Nose) MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) 1

2 It's a Good Thing Pigs Don't Fly / Swine Influenza Influenza, Swine 19

3 National Parks Can Be Hazardous to Your Health / Hantavirus 45

4 Prairie Dogs Make Lousy Pets / Monkeypox 61

5 A Civet? What's a Civet? SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) 94

6 Miniature Masters of a Million Microenvironments Viruses Rule! 121

7 It's Restraining Bats and Dogs / Rabies 140

8 Behold the Earth ... One Mighty Blood Spot / Ebola Virus Disease Disease, Ebola Virus 163

9 A Witchy Brew of Bat Spats, Horse, Froth, and Womb Drips / Nipah, Hendra Viruses Viruses, Hendra 190

Concluding Remarks 205.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781589881228

1589881222

OCLC:

974677354