Handbook of disease outbreaks : prevention, detection, and control / editors, Albin Holmgren and Gerhard Borg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holmgren, Albin.

Borg, Gerhard.

Series:

Public Health in the 21st Century

Public health in the 21st century series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemics.

Epidemiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The authors of this book examine the effects of increasing population numbers and growing environmental degradation on the current and future disease incidence throughout the world. The role that nutrition plays in the outbreak of diseases such as the Cuban epidemic optic neuropathy (CEON) is explored as well. Other topics discussed in this book include the risks, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease, the new approaches being used in the development of plague subunit vaccines, the extent to which the journalistic field relies on the language of science to provide a constructed picture of world events such as disease outbreaks, the animal and human health implications of transporting animals over long distances, and the measures that need to be taken to limit such long distance transport of animals for slaughter, with positive effects for animal and public health, as well as economic and social benefits.

Contents:

Controlling disease outbreaks : the changing role of hospitals / Raoul E. Nap ... [et al.]

Cuban epidemic optic neuropathy : an appraisal of the pathophysiological mechanisms / Alina González-Quevedo ... [et al.]

New strategies to solve an ancient problem : prevention of bubonic and pneumonic plague using plant-derived vaccines / M. Lucrecia Alvarez ... [et al.]

From "never to harm" to harnessing plague : a paradigm shift in plague ethics / Gregory W. Rutecki ... [et al.]

From a burial ground to the discovery of an epidemical crisis : biological identity and genotype / Dominique Castex

Melamine poison : a test of inter-media agenda setting / Wanda Siu

Social construction of avian flu influenza virus / Wanda Siu

Spatial and temporal patterns of Australian subtropical white syndrome at representative subtropical reefs in eastern Australia : host range, prevalence, and progression of tissue necrosis / Steven J. Dalton ... [et al.]

Disease and transport : a costly ticket around the world / Michael Greger ... [et al.]

Assessing quality and value of predictive models for dengue hemorrhagic fever epidemics / Halmar Halide

Mathematical modeling of epidemic and epizootic processes of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome / R.A. Krasnoperov ... [et al.]

Mass mobilization and the anti-schistosomiasis campaign in Maoist China (1955-1960) / Ka-wai Fan

Tularemia is an infectious disease, which to this day is mistaken for bubonic plague, and in the ancient world probably was the most feared epidemic / Siro I. Trevisanato ... [et al.]

The environmental reservoirs and vector of Vibrio cholerae / Malka Halpern ... [et al.]

The emergence of HIV-1 circulating recombinant form 07BC strains in Taiwan / Sheng-Fan Wang ... [et al.]

Utilitarian aspects of a healthcare workers' obligation to serve in the face of pandemic / Ken Kirkwood

Need for dengue virus drug discovery / Chelsea M. Byrd and Dennis E. Hruby

Dissecting entry of dengue virus into target cells / Na Gao ... [et al.]

Increasing human diseases : population growth and environmental degradation / David Pimentel

Rice-based oral vaccines for cholera and allergy / Hidenori Takagi and Fumio Takaiwa

Ethics in an epidemic / Delan Devakumar

Psychosocial response to animal disease : Australia's first outbreak of equine influenza / Melanie Taylor ... [et al.]

Environment and Lyme disease risk / Elizabeth Hilborn, Laura Jackson, Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta

Lyme disease : symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment / Bettina Panagiota Iliopoulou and Brigitte T. Huber

Renal manifestations of Lyme disease : interplay between infection and immunostimulation / Dimitrios Kirmizis, Dimitrios Chatzidimitriou.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61122-539-6