Microbial threats to health : emergence, detection, and response /

• Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century
• Other Authors: Smolinski, Mark S., Hamburg, Margaret A., Lederberg, Joshua
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, �2003.
• Subjects: Communicable diseases > United States.; Public health > United States.; Maladies infectieuses > �Etats-Unis.; Sant�e publique > �Etats-Unis.; MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.; MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.; MEDICAL > Public Health.; Communicable diseases.; Public health.; Microbiologie.; Detectie.; Immuunreacties.; Communicable Diseases, Emerging > epidemiology.; Communicable Diseases, Emerging > prevention & control.; Communicable Disease Control.; United States.; Electronic books.

Infectious diseases are a global hazard that puts every nation and every person at risk. The recent SARS outbreak is a prime example. Knowing neither geographic nor political borders, often arriving silently and lethally, microbial pathogens constitute a grave threat to the health of humans. Indeed,...