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Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Language
English
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"Recent interest in new diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and Ebola, and the resurgence of older diseases like tuberculosis has fostered questions about the history of human infectious diseases. How did they evolve? Where did they originate? What natural factors have stalled the progression of diseases or made them possible? How does a microorganism become a pathogen? How have infectious diseases changed through time? What can we do to control their occurrence?"...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Description
"The emphasis of this book lies more on the application of statistical techniques for longitudinal data analysis and not so much on the mathematical background. In most other books on the topic of longitudinal data analysis, the mathematical background is the major issue, which may not be surprising since (nearly) all the books on this topic have been written by statisticians. Although statisticians fully understand the difficult mathematical material...
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Series
Publisher
S. Wayne Martin, Alan H. Meek, Preben Willeberg
Pub. Date
1987-
Language
English
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"The purpose of this textbook is to provide an introductory, yet comprehensive, source of information on epidemiology for veterinary students, researchers, and practitioners. There has not been a textbook that presents analytic epidemiology as a science, basic to veterinary medicine's efforts in health management (herd health) as well as in clinical medicine."--Open Textbook Library.
11) Epidemics
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Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the return of epidemics in modern times, possible causes, and how they are tracked and controlled.
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Series
Publisher
Icon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out communities, or even entire populations. Yet for all our advanced scientific knowledge, only one human disease ? smallpox ? has ever been eradicated globally. In recent years, outbreaks of Ebola and Zika have provided vivid examples of how difficult it is to contain an infection once it strikes, and the panic that a rapidly spreading...