Handbook of Disease Outbreaks

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: Australia's First Outbreak of Equine Influenza; Environment & Lyme Disease Risk; Lyme Disease: Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment; Renal Manifestations of Lyme Disease: Interplay Between Infection & Immunostimulation; Index.