Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Control: A Global Perspective, 2d ed.RA643 2004-006925 0-85199-902-6 Communicable disease epidemiology and control; a global perspective, 2d ed. Webber, Roger. CABI Publishing, [c]2005 316 p. $55.00 (pa) Webber (formerly of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) provides a resource text for doctors, epidemiologists and those working in the control of communicable disease, which will also provide a clear introduction for medical students, public health specialists, and other professionals involved in disease control. The original text has been revised and rearranged for the second edition, with new sections on global warming, socioeconomic aspects, recent outbreaks that have appeared since publication of the first edition--including severe acute respiratory syndrome Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Definition Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the first emergent and highly transmissible viral disease to appear during the twenty-first century. (SARS), bovine spongiform encephalopathy bovine spongiform encephalopathy: see prion. (BSE See Bombay Stock Exchange. BSE See Boston Stock Exchange (BSE). or mad cow disease mad cow disease: see prion. mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) Fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include behavioral changes (e.g. ), new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD CJD abbr. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease CJD Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, see there ), and the increasing spread of HIV infection--and others that may prove significant in the future. Distributed in the U.S. by Oxford U. Press. |
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