Emerging epidemics : management and control /

• Main Authors: Bisen, Prakash S. (Author), Raghuvanshi, Ruchika (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley Blackwell, [2013]
• Subjects: 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.; Electronic books.

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 incr...

Table of Contents:

• 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.