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• Title:Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness / Kurt Link.
  
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• Author/Creator:Link, Kurt, 1937-
  
• Published/Created:Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA110 .L756 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Emerging infectious diseases.
  Communicable diseases--Transmission.
  Environmentally induced diseases.
  Globalization--Health aspects.
  Diseases--History.
  
• Medical Subjects: Communicable Diseases, Emerging.
  Environmental Pollution--adverse effects.
  Greenhouse Effect.
  Internationality.
  
• Description:xiv, 179 p. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-175) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780275991265 (alk. paper)
  0275991261 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. Definitions and sources
  Ch. 2. Vectors : flies, bugs, mosquitoes, worms, protozoa, and others
  Ch. 3. History of diseases
  Ch. 4. New diseases are increasing
  Ch. 5. How resurgent diseases make a comeback
  Ch. 6. Zoonosis
  Ch. 7. Diseases of affluence
  Ch. 8. Bioterrorism and agroterrorism
  Ch. 9. Environmental pathogens
  Ch. 10. New diseases
  Ch. 11. Diseases of unknown cause that may be infectious
  Ch. 12. Greenhouse effect
  Ch. 13. Prevention : early detection, communication, screening, and quarantine
  Ch. 14. Applied research
  Ch. 15. Public health.