Seven Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them /

• Main Author: Walters, Mark Jerome (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2014.
• Subjects: Environment.; Health promotion.; Environmental pollution.; Terrestrial Pollution.; Biomedicine general.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Every time we sneeze, there seems to be a new form of flu: bird flu, swine flu, Spanish flu, Hong Kong flu, H5N1, and most recently, H5N7. While these diseases appear to emerge from thin air, in fact, human activity is driving them. And the problem is not just flu, but a series of rapidly evolving a...