Emerging Epidemics (eBook)

A global perspective on the management and prevention of
emerging and re-emerging diseases

Emerging infectious diseases are newly identified or otherwise
previously unknown infections that cause public health challenges.
Re-emerging infectious diseases are due to both the reappearance of
and an increase in the number of infections from a disease that is
known, but which had formerly caused so few infections that it was
no longer considered a public health problem. The factors that
cause the emergence or re-emergence of a disease are diverse.

This book takes a look at the world's emerging and re-emerging
diseases. It covers the diagnosis, therapy, prevention, and control
of a variety of individual diseases, and examines the social and
behavioral issues that could contribute to epidemics. Each chapter
focuses on an individual disease and provides scientific background
and social history as well as the current basics of infection,
epidemiology, and control.

Emerging Epidemics: Management and Control offers five
topics of coverage:

FUNDAMENTALS

* Epidemics fundamentals

* Disasters and epidemics

* Biosafety

RE-EMERGING EPIDEMICS

* Tuberculosis

* Plague

NEWLY EMERGING EPIDEMICS

* Leptospirosis

* Dengue

* Japanese Encephalitis

* Chikungunya Fever

* West Nile Virus

* Chandipura Virus Encephalitis

* Kyasanur Forest Disease

* Hantavirus

* Human, Avian, and Swine Influenza

* Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

* Nipah Virus

* Paragonimiasis

* Melioidosis

POTENTIAL EPIDEMICS

* Biowarfare and bioterrorism

* Food contamination and food terrorism

* Antimicrobial resistance

VECTOR CONTROL METHODS

* Mosquito control

* Other disease vectors and their control

Offering an integrated, worldwide overview of the complexity of
the epidemiology of infections, Emerging Epidemics will be a
valuable resource for students, physicians, and scientists working
in veterinary, medical, and the pharmaceutical sciences.