Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease. With today's technology, some hope that it will be possible to build models for predicting the emergence and spread of many infectious diseases based on climate and weather forecasts. However, separating the effects of climate from other effects presents a tremendous scientific challenge. Can we use climate and weather forecasts to predict infectious disease outbreaks? Can the field of public health advance from "surveillance and response" to "prediction and prevention?" And perhaps the most important question of all: Can we predict how global warming will affect the emergence and transmission of infectious disease agents around the world? Under the Weather evaluates our current understanding of the linkages among climate, ecosystems, and infectious disease; it then goes a step further and outlines the research needed to improve our understanding of these linkages. The book also examines the potential for using climate forecasts and ecological observations to help predict infectious disease outbreaks, identifies the necessary components for an epidemic early warning system, and reviews lessons learned from the use of climate forecasts in other realms of human activity.

This is a clinical manual concerned mainly with the clinical aspects, pathogenesis, and treatment of the diseases of hot climates. All doctors practicing medicine in the tropics and sub-tropics, and even these days in temperate climates, need to be familiar with the peculiarities of the pathology of diseases of hot climates. The ever-mounting movement of people between various countries and the migration of populations are leading to sporadic cases of so-called tropical diseases in areas with average or even severe climates. Local doctors therefore need to know how to diagnose them and to treat them. All the most important and common diseases of the tropical and sub-tropical zones are described in this handbook. The handbook is intended for the broad circle of general practitioners. It is reprinted from the second Soviet edition.