Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response

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Overview

Infectious diseases are a global hazard that puts every nation and every person at risk. The recent SARS outbreak is a prime example. Knowing neither geographic nor political borders, often arriving silently and lethally, microbial pathogens constitute a grave threat to the health of humans. Indeed, a majority of countries recently identified the spread of infectious disease as the greatest global problem they confront. Throughout history, humans have struggled to control both the causes and consequences of infectious diseases and we will continue to do so into the foreseeable future.

Following up on a high-profile 1992 report from the Institute of Medicine, Microbial Threats to Health examines the current state of knowledge and policy pertaining to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases from around the globe. It examines the spectrum of microbial threats, factors in disease emergence, and the ultimate capacity of the United States to meet the challenges posed by microbial threats to human health. From the impact of war or technology on disease emergence to the development of enhanced disease surveillance and vaccine strategies, Microbial Threats to Health contains valuable information for researchers, students, health care providers, policymakers, public health officials. and the interested public.

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The New York Times

Microbial Threats to Health, edited by Mark S. Smolinski, Margaret A. Hamburg and Joshua Lederberg, provides an authoritative overview of the current dangers, together with recommendations for improving public health around the world. The book was put together by a committee of scientists, and it reads like a book that was put together by a committee of scientists. It will never make the best-seller lists and was never intended to, yet it contains more horrors per page than any Stephen King novel. — Barry Gewen

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780309088640
Publisher: National Academies Press
Publication date: 8/22/2003
Edition description: New Edition
Edition number: 1
Pages: 398
Product dimensions: 6.02 (w) x 9.24 (h) x 1.20 (d)

	List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes
	Acronyms
	Executive Summary	1
1	Introduction	19
2	Spectrum of Microbial Threats	23
3	Factors in Emergence	53
4	Addressing the Threats: Conclusions and Recommendations	149
	Epilogue	227
	Glossary	231
	References	241
App. A	Microbial Threats to Health Public Committee Meeting Agendas	277
App. B	Syndromic Surveillance	281
App. C	Pathogen Discovery, Detection, and Diagnostics	313
App. D	Forum on Emerging Infections Membership and Publications, Board on Global Health	331
App. E	Computational Modeling and Simulation of Epidemic Infectious Diseases	335
App. F	Committee and Staff Biographies	343
	Index	353

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