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Six modern plagues and how we are causing them / Mark Jerome Walters.

Summary:

Discusses six new epidemics, exploring the connection between human changes to the natural environment and the appearance of West Nile virus, mad cow disease, HIV/AIDS, hantavirus, Lyme disease, a new strain of salmonella, and SARS.

Record details

  • ISBN: 155963992X
  • ISBN: 9781559639927
  • Physical Description: 206 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Washington : Island Press, [2003]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Shearwater book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-190) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The dark side of progress : mad cow disease -- A chimp called Amandine : HIV/AIDS -- The travels of antibiotic resistance : Salmonella DT104 -- Of old growth and arthritis : Lyme disease -- A spring to die for : Hantavirus -- A virus from the Nile.
Subject:
Epidemiology > Popular works.
Environmental health > Popular works.
Human ecology > Popular works.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Jacksonville Main Library 614.4 WAL (Text) 36015000703781 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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