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 sub-unit 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.
Preface; Controlling Disease Outbreaks:: The Changing Role of Hospitals; Cuban Epidemic Optic Neuropathy:: An Appraisal of the Pathophysiological Mechanisms; New Strategies to Solve an Ancient Problem:: Prevention of Bubonic & Pneumonic Plague using Plant-Derived Vaccines; From Never to Harm to Harnessing Plague:: A Paradigm Shift in Plague Ethics; From a Burial Ground to the Discovery of an Epidemical Crisis:: Biological Identity & Genotype; Melamine Poison:: A Test of Inter-Media Agenda Setting; Social Construction of Avian Flu Influenza Virus; Spatial & Temporal Patterns of Australian Subtropical White Syndrome at Representative Subtropical Reefs in Eastern Australia:: Host Range, Prevalence, & Progression of Tissue Necrosis; Disease & Transport:: A Costly Ticket around the World; Assessing Quality & Value of Predictive Models for Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Epidemics; Mathematical Modeling of Epidemic & Epizootic Processes of Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome; Mass Mobilization & the Anti-Schistosomiasis Campaign in Maoist China (1955-1960); Tularemia is an Infectious Disease, Which to This Day is Mistaken for Bubonic Plague, & in the Ancient World Probably Was the Most Feared Epidemic; The Environmental Reservoirs & Vector of Vibrio Cholerae; The Emergence of HIV-1 Circulating Recombinant Form 07BC Strains in Taiwan; Utilitarian Aspects of a Healthcare Workers Obligation to Serve in the Face of Pandemic; Need for Dengue Virus Drug Discovery (Chelsea M. Byrd & Dennis E. Hruby, SIGA Technologies Inc., Corvallis OR); Dissecting Entry of Dengue Virus into Target Cells; Increasing Human Diseases:: Population Growth & Environmental Degradation; Rice-Based Oral Vaccines for Cholera & Allergy; Ethics in an Epidemic; Psychosocial Response to Animal Disease:: Australias First Outbreak of Equine Influenza; Environment & Lyme Disease Risk; Lyme Disease:: Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment; Renal Manifestations of Lyme Disease:: Interplay Between Infection & Immunostimulation; Index.
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