New & Resurgent Infections: Prediction, Detection and Management of Tomorrow's Epidemics

The twentieth century opened with infectious diseases dominating medicine and witnessed scientific advances that promised control over them; it closes with abundant reminders that the history of infectious disease is far from over. New & Resurgent Infections is the seventh of a series of annual public health forums organized by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and provides a review of:

• The role of local, global, environmental and sociological factors in the emergence of new infections

• Variability in pathogens and the way this leads to resurgence of infections

• Surveillance

• The public health response, and

• Examples of new and resurgent diseases such as Malaria, Ebola, CJD/BSE and E. coli

This volume will be of interest to all public health specialists, epidemiologists, microbiologists, virologists, ministries of health, and international health agencies concerned with the increasing problem of emerging infectious diseases.