Pandemics
"From HIV to H1N1, pandemics pose one of the greatest threats to global health in the twenty-first century. Defined as epidemics of infectious disease across large geographic areas, pandemics can disseminate globally with incredible speed as humans and goods move faster than ever before. While restricted travel, quarantine, vaccines, drugs, and education can reduce the severity of many outbreaks, factors such as global warming, population density, and antibiotic resistance will complicate our a…
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- Full title :Pandemics / Peter C. Doherty.
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"From HIV to H1N1, pandemics pose one of the greatest threats to global health in the twenty-first century. Defined as epidemics of infectious disease across large geographic areas, pandemics can disseminate globally with incredible speed as humans and goods move faster than ever before. While restricted travel, quarantine, vaccines, drugs, and education can reduce the severity of many outbreaks, factors such as global warming, population density, and antibiotic resistance will complicate our ability to fight disease. Respiratory infections like influenza and SARS spread quickly as a consequence of modern, mass air travel, while unsafe health practices promote the spread of viruses like HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C. In Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Peter Doherty addresses the history of pandemics and the ones that persist today, what promotes global spread, types of pathogens and the level of threat they pose, as well as how to combat outbreaks and mitigate their effects"--Provided by publisher.
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- Publication Date:©2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxxviii, 227 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199898121, 019989812X, 9780199898107, 0199898103
- oclc:ocn823216237
- LC Classification:RA651
- Dewey Decimal:614.4
Table of Contents
1. Infection and immunity -- Difference between a virus and bacterium -- Difference between RNA and DNA -- Colds and flu -- Pathogen -- What is snot? -- Horizontal infection --If there is a bacterial and protozoal "microbiome," is there a "virome"? -- Immunity -- Monoclonal antibodies -- mAbs : drugs or vaccines? -- Vaccines -- 2. Pandemics, epidemics, and outbreaks -- H1N1 "swine flu" -- How does the WHO operate? -- Pandemic classification system -- Difference between pandemic, epidemic or outbreak -- "Zoonosis" -- Endemic infection -- Are plants also included in the world of pandemics? -- 3. The SARS warning -- "Natural" reservoirs -- 4. Tuberculosis and influenza -- Multi-drug-resistant TB -- MDR TB -- Different kinds of influenza virus -- Antigenic shift -- Are birds and pigs our main concern when it comes to catching the flu? -- 1918-1919 influenza pandemic -- Flu vaccines -- 5. Fledermaus to field mouse -- Is it unusual that fruit bats carry SARS? -- Henipaviruses -- Ebola -- Hemorrhagic disease -- Filoviruses.
6. Virus vectors -- WNV -- WNV infects birds, horses, and humans : does it also multiply in mosquitoes? -- Yellow fever virus -- Global movements of arboviruses -- D…
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