Emerging viruses in human populations /

• Other Authors: Tabor, Edward
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2007.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Perspectives in medical virology ; v. 16.
• Subjects: Virus diseases > Epidemiology.; Zoonoses.; MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.; MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.; MEDICAL > Public Health.; Virusinfecties.; Infectieziekten.; Maladies à virus > Épidémiologie.; Virologie.; Virussjukdomar.; Virus Diseases > epidemiology.; Communicable Diseases, Emerging.; Humans.; Electronic books.

Infectious diseases are an ever present threat to humans. In recent years, the threat of these emerging viruses has been greater than ever before in human history, due in large part to global travel by larger numbers of people, and to a lesser extent to disruptions in the interface between developed...

Table of Contents:

• Cover; Emerging Viruses in Human Populations; Copyright page; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction: The Emergence of Pathogenic Viruses; Chapter 2. History of Emerging Viruses in the Late 20th Century and the Paradigm Observed in an Emerging Prion Disease; Chapter 3. Zoonoses in the Emergence of Human Viral Diseases; Chapter 4. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV); Chapter 5. The Pandemic Threat of Avian Influenza Viruses; Chapter 6. The Emerging West Nile Virus: From the Old World to the New; Chapter 7. Monkeypox Virus Infections.