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More About This Textbook
Overview
A sampling of the topics covered: Avian flu in Thailand, SARS outbreaks in China, Taiwan, and Singapore, HIV/AIDS in China, Human hemorrhagic fever in Saudi Arabia, Drug-resistant TB throughout Asia, E. coli in the developing world. By summarizing the knowledge base at this critical stage, Emerging Infections in Asia aids both epidemiologists and students of epidemiology in their efforts toward preparedness for and prevention of future pandemics. It is a bedrock volume in understanding this most pressing public health issue.
Editorial Reviews
From The Critics
Reviewer: Whitney S Baker, BS, MPH(University of Iowa College of Public Health)Description: Through recounts of lessons learned from the past coupled with up-to-date research data and current disease-fighting campaigns, this book acquaints readers with infectious diseases emerging out of Asia and threatening to be the next pandemic.
Purpose: It aims to shed light on why Asia has become a continual source of emerging infectious diseases, in a much needed attempt to improve pandemic preparedness and response efforts. While the book does not answer this question, the imminent threat of the next pandemic does seem to point to Asia as its source and thus, considering all emerging diseases, not only the H5N1 avian influenza virus, is necessary and crucial.
Audience: Epidemiologists in the field, policy makers for national pandemic preparedness plans, and public health students in the classroom can benefit from this book. While the editors are authorities in HIV/AIDS, the contributors who author the chapters credibly present the current situations arising out of Asia.
Features: With a focus on emerging zoonotic diseases, the book covers everything from the established HIV/AIDS virus to the new kids on the block, such as the henipaviruses. Effectively using minimal graphics and illustrations, the book provides lessons learned from the past, in hopes of applying this knowledge to newly emerging pathogens. The final part of the book covers lesser known emerging diseases, which is of great value to nonexpert readers. The chapters on SARS are well balanced, but other parts of the book fall short of expectations. The avian influenza sections have some overlap, as well as one poorly written chapter that proved difficult to read. The section on HIV/AIDS is short, with only two chapters, one of which (written by the book's editors) is a comprehensive overview of HIV/AIDS that does not address the situation in Asia. The second chapter is specific to China.
Assessment: Even without answering the question that gave birth to this book, overall it provides a sound reference for the current status of infectious diseases in Asia. Although best used in conjunction with other books in the field, epidemiologists and students can benefit by adding this to their list of resources.
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Meet the Author
Yichen Lu is the Executive Director at the Institute for International Vaccine Development, Cambridge, MA; the Principal Research Scientist at the Harvard AIDS Institute; and the Special Professor and Director, Nankai Vaccine Laboratory, Nankai University, China.
Max Essex is the Chairman of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health and Chairman of the Harvard AIDS Institute.
Table of Contents
I Avian Flu.- 1. Influenza: Biology, Infection and Control.- 2. The Past and Present Threat of Avian Influenza in Thailand.- 3. Transmission of avian influenza viruses to humans: viral receptor specificity and distribution in human airways.- II SARS.- 4. Investigation of animal reservoir(s) of SARS-CoV.- 5. SARS Epidemic: SARS Outbreaks in China.- 6. The 2003 SARS outbreak in Singapore: epidemiological and clinical features, containment measures and lessons learned.- 7. THE 2003 SARS Outbreaks in Taiwan.- III HIV/AIDS.- 8. HIV/AIDS: Lessons from a New Disease Pandemic.- 9. AIDS in China.- IV Other Infections.- 10. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli’s endemicity in developing countries and its emergence during diarrheal epidemics and natural disasters.- 11. Human cases of hemorrhagic fever in Saudi Arabia due to a newly discovered flavivirus, Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus.- 12. Disease outbreaks caused by emerging paramyxoviruses of bat origin .- 13. Multidrug Resistant TB, TB Control and Millennium Development Goals in Asia.- 14. Emergence of Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin in Asia.