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Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Analysis - Emergence and Re-emergence (Hardcover, New)
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Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Analysis - Emergence and Re-emergence (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series
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The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of
an unprecedented number of 'new' infectious diseases: the familiar
roll call includes AIDS, Ebola, H5N1 influenza, hantavirus,
hepatitis E, Lassa fever, legionnaires' and Lyme diseases, Marburg
fever, Rift Valley fever, SARS, and West Nile. The outbreaks range
in scale from global pandemics that have brought death and misery
to millions, through to self-limiting outbreaks of mainly local
impact. Some outbreaks have erupted explosively but have already
faded away; some grumble along or continue to devastate as now
persistent features in the medical lexicon; in others, a huge
potential threat hangs uncertainly and worryingly in the air. Some
outbreaks are merely local, others are worldwide.
This book looks at the epidemiological and geographical conditions
which underpin disease emergence. What are the processes which lead
to emergence? Why now in human history? Where do such diseases
emerge and how do they spread or fail to spread around the globe?
What is the armoury of surveillance and control measures that may
curb the impact of such diseases? But, uniquely, it sets these
questions on the modern period of disease emergence in an
historical context. First, it uses the historical record to set
recent events against a much broader temporal canvas, finding
emergence to be a constant theme in disease history rather than one
confined to recent decades. It concludes that it is the
quantitative pace of emergence, rather than its intrinsic nature,
that separates the present period from earlier centuries. Second,
it looks at the spatial and ecological setting of emergence, using
hundreds of specially-drawn maps to chart the source areas of new
diseases and the pathways of their spread. The book is divided into
three main sections: Part 1 looks at early disease emergence, Part
2 at the processes of disease emergence, and Part 3 at the future
for emergent diseases.
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