Disease selection : the way disease changed the world /

• 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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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...

Table of Contents:

• The sexual revolution
• Out of Africa
• Host/parasite interaction
• Using a vector
• The great plagues
• Missionaries of death
• The slave trade in parasites
• Eden's garden of South America
• A glass of water
• The great war
• Man's best friend?
• The animal connection
• Not clean
• Too clean
• The food we eat
• Cancer
• Climate change and population movements
• Disappeared and emergent diseases
• The future
• Conclusions.