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...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. The Dark Side of Progress: Mad Cow Disease
• 2. A Chimp Called Amandine: HIV/AIDS
• 3. The Travels of Antibiotic Resistance: Salmonella DT104 53
• 4. Of Old Growth and Arthritis: Lyme Disease
• 5. A Spring to Die For: Hantavirus
• 6. A Virus from the Nile
• 7. Birds, Pigs, and People: The Rise of Pandemic Flus
• Epilogue: MERS-CoV and Beyond
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index.