Infectious diseases sourcebook : basic consumer health information about non-contagious bacterial, viral, prion, fungal, and parasitic diseases spread by food and water, insects and animals, or environmental contact, including botulism, E. coli, encephalitis, Legionnaires' disease, Lyme disease, malaria, plague, rabies, salmonella, tetanus, and others, and facts about newly emerging diseases, such as hantavirus, mad cow disease, monkeypox, and West Nile virus, along with information about preventing disease transmission, the threat of bioterrorism, and current research initiatives, with a glossary and directory of resources for more information / edited by Karen Bellenir.
Series: Health reference series (Unnumbered)Publication details: Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c2004.Edition: 1st editionDescription: xiii, 634 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0780806751 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- WC 39 I438 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 585-590) and index.
Part I : Understanding infectious Diseases
Part II: Diseases acquired from food and drinking water
Part III: Insect and animal borne diseases
Part IV: Environmental contamination and microbe overgrowth
Part V: The threat of Bioterrorism
Part VI: Infectious Diseases research
Part VII: Additional help and information
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