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Disease selection : the way disease changed the world /

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...

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Main Author: Webber, Roger, (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2015.
Subjects:
Communicable diseases > Epidemiology.
Communicable Diseases > history.
Host-Pathogen Interactions.
History and Biography.
Pets and Companion Animals.
Meteorology and Climate.
Biological Resources (General)
Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.
Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000)
Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000)
Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000)
Human Health and the Environment.
Taxonomy and Evolution.
Bacterial diseases.
Climate.
Climate change.
Disease distribution.
Disease transmission.
Disease vectors.
Epidemiology.
Evolution.
Foodborne diseases.
Foods.
Geographical distribution.
Helminthoses.
Helminths.
History.
Host parasite relationships.
Hosts.
Human diseases.
Hygiene.
Infections.
Infectious diseases.
Neoplasms.
Parasites.
Parasitoses.
Pathogens.
Pets.
Protozoal infections.
Public health.
Spread.
Vector-borne diseases.
Viral diseases.
World.
Zoonoses.
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