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. 
 - 1st edition. 
 - Detroit, MI :  Omnigraphics,  c2004. 
 - xiii, 634 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Health reference series .
 - Health reference series (Unnumbered) .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 585-590) and index. 
<br/><br/>Part I : Understanding infectious Diseases <br/><br/>Part II: Diseases acquired from  food and drinking water<br/><br/>Part III: Insect and animal borne diseases<br/><br/>Part IV: Environmental contamination and microbe overgrowth<br/><br/>Part V: The threat of Bioterrorism<br/><br/>Part VI: Infectious Diseases research<br/><br/>Part VII: Additional help and information  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0780806751 (hard cover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004004726 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Communicable diseases--Popular works.<br/>Communicable Diseases--Popular Works.<br/>Communicable Diseases--Resource Guides.
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WC 39 I438 2004  / I438 2004