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Disease selection: the way disease changed the world.

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This book contains 20 chapters covering a range of infectious diseases, as well as a few non-infectious diseases such as cancer, and how they greatly affected the course of human history. It explores host-pathogen relationship, transmission routes, evolution, and global spread of infectious diseases including numerous viral, bacterial, protozoal, and helminth infections. It also covers the contrib...
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Chapter 12 (Page no: 107)

The animal connection.

This chapter reviews the animal origins of some of the most serious infectious diseases of humans, which include human immunodeficiency virus infections, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It also discusses the role of bats as a reservoir host for other potential human pathogens.

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Chapter: 1 (Page no: 1) The sexual revolution. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 2 (Page no: 10) Out of Africa. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 3 (Page no: 21) Host/parasite interaction. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 4 (Page no: 35) Using a vector. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 5 (Page no: 53) The great plagues. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 6 (Page no: 60) Missionaries of death. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 7 (Page no: 66) The slave trade in parasites. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 8 (Page no: 74) Eden's Garden of South America. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 9 (Page no: 81) A glass of water. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 10 (Page no: 88) The Great War. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 11 (Page no: 93) Man's best friend? Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 13 (Page no: 114) Not clean. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 14 (Page no: 119) Too clean. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 15 (Page no: 124) The food we eat. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 16 (Page no: 133) Cancer. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 17 (Page no: 137) Climate change and population movements. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 18 (Page no: 141) Disappeared and emergent diseases. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 19 (Page no: 146) The future. Author(s): Webber, R.
Chapter: 20 (Page no: 152) Conclusions. Author(s): Webber, R.
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  • Year of Publication
  • 2015
  • ISBN
  • 9781780646824
  • Record Number
  • 20153356002
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