World Atlas of Epidemic Diseases

• Author(s): Smallman-Raynor Matthew, Haggett Peter, Cliff Andrew,
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Pages: 224
• ISBN_10: 1444114190
  ISBN_13: 9781444114195
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / General , Medical / Epidemiology ,

Description:... The euphoria about the defeat of epidemics which surrounded the global eradication of smallpox in the 1970s proved short-lived. The advent of AIDS in the following decade, the widening spectrum of other newly-emergent diseases (from Ebola to Hanta virus), and the resurgence of old diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria all suggest that the threa