Six modern plagues : and how we are causing them

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Title:

Author:

Walters, Mark Jerome.

ISBN:

9781559637145

Personal Author:

Walters, Mark Jerome.

Publication Information:

Washington., DC : Island Press, 2004.

Physical Description:

212 p. ; 21 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

1. The Dark Side Progress: Mad Cow Disease -- 2. A Chimp Called Amandine: HIV/AIDS -- 3. The Travels of Antibiotic Resistance: Salmonella DT104 -- 4. Of Old Growth and Arthritis: Lyme Disease -- 5. A Spring to Die For: Hantavirus -- 6. A Virus from the Nile -- Epilogue: SARS and Beyond.

Subject Term:

Epidemiology -- Popular works.

Environmental Health.

Epidemiology.

Environmental health -- Popular works.

Human ecology -- Popular works.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip046/2003015137.html

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Summary

Mark Jerome Walters elucidates the surprising connections between human-induced changes to the natural environment and recent epidemics, including West Nile virus, mad cow disease, HIV/AIDS. Lyme disease, and SARS. According to Walters, we are not only victims of these emerging diseases; we are helping exacerbate their creation and spread.