emerging infectious diseases

Presents a series of essays that examines the global effect of infectious diseases and the political and medical response to such things as AIDS, SARS, smallpox, and bioterrorism.

Contains twenty-one essays that present opposing viewpoints on issues related to resurgent diseases--which includes the mumps, tuberculosis, and MRSA--and discusses causes, social responses, and ways that resurgent diseases can be controlled or reduced.

Describes various infectious, bacterial, and viral diseases including West Nile, yellow fever, smallpox, SARS, and Ebola discussing their causes and symptoms, how they spread, and efforts to find cures.

Takes a look at the 2005 epidemic in Angola caused by Marburg, a virus related to Ebola, discussing health care in the developing world, and describes the origins and spread of avian flu, HIV and AIDS, hantavirus, West Nile virus, SARS, and monkeypox.