Emerging epidemics : management and control / Prakash S. Bisen and Ruchika Raghuvanshi.
Material type: TextPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley Blackwell, ©2013.Description: 1 online resource (757 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
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- Emerging infectious diseases -- Prevention
- Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- prevention & control
- Epidemics -- prevention & control
- Communicable Disease Control -- standards
- Hazardous Substances -- standards
- MEDICAL -- Epidemiology
- MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment
- Communicable diseases
- Epidemics
- Hazardous substances
- 614.4 23
- RA651
- WA 110
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 worl.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Epidemics : fundamentals -- Disasters and epidemics -- Bio-safety -- Tuberculosis -- Plague -- Leptospirosis -- Dengue -- Japanese encephalitis -- Chikungunya fever -- West Nile fever -- Chandipura virus encephalitis -- Kyasanur forest diseases -- Hanta virus disease -- Influenza -- Sever acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) -- Nipah virus -- Paragonimiasis -- Melioidosis -- Biowarfare and bioterrorism -- Antimicrobial resistance -- Conventional methods for mosquito control -- New and potential techniques : mosquito control -- Other disease vectors and their control.
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