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Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness / Kurt Link.

by Link, Kurt, 1937-

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Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.

Emerging infectious diseases.

Communicable diseases -- Transmission.

Environmentally induced diseases.

Globalization -- Health aspects.

Diseases -- History.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007003041.html

9780275991265 (alk. paper) :

0275991261 (alk. paper)

xiv, 179 p. ; 25 cm.

Definitions and sources -- Vectors -- History of diseases -- New diseases are increasing -- How resurgent diseases make a comeback -- Zoonosis -- Diseases of affluence -- Bioterrorism and agroterrorism -- Environmental pathogens -- New diseases -- Diseases of unknown cause that may be infectious -- Greenhouse effect -- Prevention -- Applied research -- Public health.

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