BookPrakash S. Bisen and Ruchika Raghuvanshi.
Summary: A global perspective on the management and prevention of emerging and re-emerging diseases Emerging infectious diseases are newly identified or otherwise previously unknown infections that cause public health challenges. Re-emerging infectious diseases are due to both the reappearance of and an increase in the number of infections from a disease that is known, but which had formerly caused so few infections that it was no longer considered a public health problem. The factors that cause the emergence or re-emergence of a disease are diverse. This book takes a look at the worl
Contents:
Epidemics : fundamentals
Disasters and epidemics
Bio-safety
Tuberculosis
Plague
Leptospirosis
Dengue
Japanese encephalitis
Chikungunya fever
West Nile fever
Chandipura virus encephalitis
Kyasanur forest diseases
Hanta virus disease
Influenza
Sever acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
Nipah virus
Paragonimiasis
Melioidosis
Biowarfare and bioterrorism
Antimicrobial resistance
Conventional methods for mosquito control
New and potential techniques : mosquito control
Other disease vectors and their control.