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Six modern plagues and how we are causing them / Mark Jerome Walters.

Six modern plagues and how we are causing them / Mark Jerome Walters.
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ISBN 155963992X (alk. paper)
1559637145
Name Walters, Mark Jerome
Title Six modern plagues and how we are causing them / Mark Jerome Walters.
Published Washington : Island Press, c2003.
Description 212 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. The Dark Side of Progress: Mad Cow Disease -- 2. A Chimp Called Amandine: HIV/AIDS -- 3. The Travels of Antibiotic Resistance: Salmonella DT104 -- 4. Of Old Growth and Arthritis: Lyme Disease -- 5. A Spring to Die For: Hantavirus -- 6. A Virus from the Nile -- Epilogue: SARS and Beyond.
Summary "In Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, Mark Jerome Walters tells the human stories behind these diseases and brilliantly shows the connections between new epidemics and human changes to the natural environment. "So closely are new epidemics linked to ecological change," Walters argues, "they might rightfully be called ecodemics." Global climate change, deforestation, heavily industrialized agriculture, and wildlife decimation, not to mention global travel and commerce, he shows, have all contributed to the emergence and spread of these diseases. We are not simply victims of new illnesses; we are helping to cause or exacerbate them through changes we've made to the natural world."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects Epidemiology
Environmental health
Human ecology
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