Spreading the Disease

Spreading the Disease
Title Spreading the Disease PDF eBook
Author Dan Wickline
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2007
Genre Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN 9781600100857

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Originally published as 30 Days of Night #1-3.

Contagion

Contagion
Title Contagion PDF eBook
Author Mark Harrison
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 428
Release 2012-01-01
Genre Medical
ISBN 0300123574

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Looks at the connection between trade and disease, tracing the plagues that swept through Eurasia in the fourteenth century and exposes the weaknesses in the current public health system that make our world susceptible to a pandemic.

Spreading Germs

Spreading Germs
Title Spreading Germs PDF eBook
Author Michael Worboys
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 358
Release 2000-10-16
Genre History
ISBN 9780521773027

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Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys surveys many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine. He shows that there were many germ theories of disease, and that these were developed and used in different ways across veterinary medicine, surgery, public health and general medicine. The growth of bacteriology is considered in relation to the evolution of medical practice rather than as a separate science of germs.

Lyme Disease

Lyme Disease
Title Lyme Disease PDF eBook
Author Alan G. Barbour
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 334
Release 2015-04-15
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 1421417219

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Featuring a list of reliable web sites and a glossary of terms, Lyme Disease is an invaluable resource for everyone who is at risk of the disease or is involved in preventing and treating it.

Functional Processes of Disease

Functional Processes of Disease
Title Functional Processes of Disease PDF eBook
Author Robert H. Walkre
Publisher Health Research Books
Pages 50
Release 1997-09
Genre Medical
ISBN 9780787309244

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1951 the material presented in this publication has been gathered from many sources and integrated to form a broad general view of the physiology of the entire body during the course of disease. Contents: Genesis of Disesase, the Role of the Nervous Sy.

Charting the Next Pandemic

Charting the Next Pandemic
Title Charting the Next Pandemic PDF eBook
Author Ana Pastore y Piontti
Publisher Springer
Pages 221
Release 2018-11-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 331993290X

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This book provides an introduction to the computational and complex systems modeling of the global spreading of infectious diseases. The latest developments in the area of contagion processes modeling are discussed, and readers are exposed to real world examples of data-model integration impacting the decision-making process. Recent advances in computational science and the increasing availability of real-world data are making it possible to develop realistic scenarios and real-time forecasts of the global spreading of emerging health threats. The first part of the book guides the reader through sophisticated complex systems modeling techniques with a non-technical and visual approach, explaining and illustrating the construction of the modern framework used to project the spread of pandemics and epidemics. Models can be used to transform data to knowledge that is intuitively communicated by powerful infographics and for this reason, the second part of the book focuses on a set of charts that illustrate possible scenarios of future pandemics. The visual atlas contained allows the reader to identify commonalities and patterns in emerging health threats, as well as explore the wide range of models and data that can be used by policy makers to anticipate trends, evaluate risks and eventually manage future events. Charting the Next Pandemic puts the reader in the position to explore different pandemic scenarios and to understand the potential impact of available containment and prevention strategies. This book emphasizes the importance of a global perspective in the assessment of emerging health threats and captures the possible evolution of the next pandemic, while at the same time providing the intelligence needed to fight it. The text will appeal to a wide range of audiences with diverse technical backgrounds.

Learning from SARS

Learning from SARS
Title Learning from SARS PDF eBook
Author Institute of Medicine
Publisher National Academies Press
Pages 376
Release 2004-04-26
Genre Medical
ISBN 0309182158

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The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in late 2002 and 2003 challenged the global public health community to confront a novel epidemic that spread rapidly from its origins in southern China until it had reached more than 25 other countries within a matter of months. In addition to the number of patients infected with the SARS virus, the disease had profound economic and political repercussions in many of the affected regions. Recent reports of isolated new SARS cases and a fear that the disease could reemerge and spread have put public health officials on high alert for any indications of possible new outbreaks. This report examines the response to SARS by public health systems in individual countries, the biology of the SARS coronavirus and related coronaviruses in animals, the economic and political fallout of the SARS epidemic, quarantine law and other public health measures that apply to combating infectious diseases, and the role of international organizations and scientific cooperation in halting the spread of SARS. The report provides an illuminating survey of findings from the epidemic, along with an assessment of what might be needed in order to contain any future outbreaks of SARS or other emerging infections.