Emerging Epidemics: Management and Control

A global perspective on the management and prevention ofemerging and re-emerging diseases

Emerging infectious diseases are newly identified or otherwisepreviously unknown infections that cause public health challenges.Re-emerging infectious diseases are due to both the reappearance ofand an increase in the number of infections from a disease that isknown, but which had formerly caused so few infections that it wasno longer considered a public health problem. The factors thatcause the emergence or re-emergence of a disease are diverse.

This book takes a look at the world's emerging and re-emergingdiseases. It covers the diagnosis, therapy, prevention, and controlof a variety of individual diseases, and examines the social andbehavioral issues that could contribute to epidemics. Each chapterfocuses on an individual disease and provides scientific backgroundand social history as well as the current basics of infection,epidemiology, and control.

Emerging Epidemics: Management and Control offers fivetopics of coverage:

FUNDAMENTALS

• Epidemics fundamentals
• Disasters and epidemics
• Biosafety

RE-EMERGING EPIDEMICS

• Tuberculosis
• Plague

NEWLY EMERGING EPIDEMICS

• Leptospirosis
• Dengue
• Japanese Encephalitis
• Chikungunya Fever
• West Nile Virus
• Chandipura Virus Encephalitis
• Kyasanur Forest Disease
• Hantavirus
• Human, Avian, and Swine Influenza
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• Nipah Virus
• Paragonimiasis
• Melioidosis

POTENTIAL EPIDEMICS

• Biowarfare and bioterrorism
• Food contamination and food terrorism
• Antimicrobial resistance

VECTOR CONTROL METHODS

• Mosquito control
• Other disease vectors and their control

Offering an integrated, worldwide overview of the complexity ofthe epidemiology of infections, Emerging Epidemics will be avaluable resource for students, physicians, and scientists workingin veterinary, medical, and the pharmaceutical sciences.