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This book contains 20 chapters covering a range of infectious diseases, as well as a few non-infectious diseases such as cancer, and how they greatly affected the course of human history. It explores host-pathogen relationship, transmission routes, evolution, and global spread of infectious diseases including numerous viral, bacterial, protozoal, and helminth infections. It also covers the contribution of pets (dogs and cats), food, hygiene, and climate change in the spread of infectious diseases. This book is a valuable resource for students, practitioners and researchers working in global health and anyone interested in the understanding of the basis of disease.
Diseases have taken a major role in making us humans, and probably determine the way we run our lives. History is full of the great epidemics of plague, smallpox and anthrax, but we survived because of our genetic variation and immune system. Disease continues to have a profound effect, selecting the course of the world just as much as nature has.
Intro -- Disease Selection: The Way Disease Changed the World -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: The Sexual Revolution -- Origin of Life -- Complex Life -- Natural History of Disease -- Two Sexes -- 2: Out of Africa -- Human Origins -- The First Diseases -- Genetic Diversity -- Disease Selection and Race -- 3: Host/Parasite Interaction -- Effect of the Parasite -- Malaria as a Complex Disease -- Amphibiosis -- Host Response -- Human Endogenous Retroviruses -- Vaccination -- A Balance between Nature and Disease -- 4: Using a Vector -- Anopheline Mosquitoes -- Culicine Mosquitoes -- Filariasis and Its Control -- The Tsetse Fly and Sleeping Sickness -- Plague and the Flea -- Typhus and Its Vectors -- Ticks -- Vectors and Disease Selection -- 5: The Great Plagues -- The Black Death -- Smallpox -- Changing History -- 6: Missionaries of Death -- Samoa -- Fiji -- Nauru -- Africa -- The Value of Immunity -- 7: The Slave Trade in Parasites -- Hookworm Disease -- Schistosomiasis -- Filariasis in the New World -- The Jigger -- Other Movements of Slaves -- 8: Eden's Garden of South America -- The Peopling of America -- Introduction of Old World Diseases -- Malaria in South America -- Yellow Fever -- Chagas' Disease -- 9: A Glass of Water -- Cholera -- Typhoid -- Prevention -- 10: The Great War -- 11: Man's Best Friend? -- Rabies -- Hydatid Disease -- Toxocariasis -- Toxoplasmosis -- Beef and Pork Tapeworms -- Anthrax -- Brucellosis -- Reducing the Risk -- 12: The Animal Connection -- Animal Origins -- HIV Infection -- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease -- Bats -- Cross-species Transmission -- 13: Not Clean -- Neonatal Tetanus -- Trachoma -- Yaws and Syphilis -- Handwashing -- Education -- 14: Too Clean -- Poliomyelitis -- Allergic Conditions -- Immune Stimulation.
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