文档介绍：Emerging Viruses in Human Populations
(Perspectives in Medical Virology, Volume 16)
by Edward Tabor
Hardcover: 374 pages
Publisher: Elsevier Science (January 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0444520740
ISBN-13: 978-0444520746
Book Description
Infectious diseases are an ever present threat to humans. In recent years, the threat of these
emerging viruses has been greater than ever before in human history, due in large part to global
travel by larger numbers of people, and to a lesser extent to disruptions in the interface
between developed and undeveloped areas. The emergence of new deadly viruses in human
populations during recent decades has confirmed this risk. They remain the third leading cause
of deaths in the US and the second world-wide.
Emerging Viruses in Human Populations provides prehensive review of viruses that are
emerging or that threaten to emerge among human populations in the twenty-first century. It
discusses the apprehension over emerging viruses that has intensified due to concerns about
bioterrorism.
* Presents the history of emerging viruses
* Includes chapters on SARS, Pandemic Threat of Avian Influenza Viruses, West Nile Virus,
Monkeypox Virus, Hantavirus, Nipah Virus and Hendra Virus, Japanese Encephalitis Virus,
Dengue and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses
* Discusses surveillance for newly emerging diseases
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Emergence of Pathogenic Viruses............................ 1
References.................................................................. 3
History of Emerging Viruses in the Late 20th Century and the
Paradigm Observed in an Emerging Prion Disease ............................. 5
Introduction ................................................................. 5
Human behavior and herpes simplex virus, type 2
(HSV-2) ..................................................................... 5
Human immunodeficiency virus, type 1 (HIV-1) ........ 6