Seven Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them /

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Every time we sneeze, there seems to be a new form of flu: bird flu, swine flu, Spanish flu, Hong Kong flu, H5N1, and most recently, H5N7. While these diseases appear to emerge from thin air, in fact, human activity is driving them. And the problem is not just flu, but a series of rapidly evolving a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walters, Mark Jerome (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Temas:
Soil science.
Medicine-Research.
Biology-Research.
Medicine, Preventive.
Health promotion.
Soil Science.
Biomedical Research.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Dark Side of Progress: Mad Cow Disease
  • 2. A Chimp Called Amandine: HIV/AIDS
  • 3. The Travels of Antibiotic Resistance: Salmonella DT104 53
  • 4. Of Old Growth and Arthritis: Lyme Disease
  • 5. A Spring to Die For: Hantavirus
  • 6. A Virus from the Nile
  • 7. Birds, Pigs, and People: The Rise of Pandemic Flus
  • Epilogue: MERS-CoV and Beyond
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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