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This inter-agency handbook focuses on effective malaria control responses to complex emergencies, particularly during the acute phase when reliance on international humanitarian assistance is greatest. It provides policy-makers, planners, field programme managers and medical coordinators with practical guidance on designing and implementing measures to reduce malaria morbidity and mortality. Such measures must address the needs of both the displaced and the host populations and must accommodate the changes in those needs as an acute emergency evolves into a more stable situation. A glossary is provided at the beginning of the handbook and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of several chapters.

Ague --- Chills and fever --- Intermittent fever --- Malaria --- Paludisme --- Epidemics. --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Communicable diseases --- Prevention. --- Outbreaks --- Pandemics

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Pestivirus Infections --- Yersinia pestis --- Plague --- Disease Outbreaks --- History, Ancient --- history --- mortality --- growth & development --- pathogenicity

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Humans have lived in close proximity to other animals for thousands of years. Recent scientific studies have even shown that the presence of animals has a positive effect on our physical and mental health. People with pets typically have lower blood pressure, show fewer symptoms of depression, and tend to get more exercise. But there is a darker side to the relationship between animals and humans. Animals are carriers of harmful infectious agents and the source of a myriad of human diseases. In recent years, the emergence of high-profile illnesses such as AIDS, SARS, West Nile virus, and bird flu has drawn much public attention, but as E. Fuller Torrey and Robert H. Yolken reveal, the transfer of deadly microbes from animals to humans is neither a new nor an easily avoided problem. Beginning with the domestication of farm animals nearly 10,000 years ago, Beasts of the Earth traces the ways that human-animal contact has evolved over time. Today, shared living quarters, overlapping ecosystems, and experimental surgical practices where organs or tissues are transplanted from non-humans into humans continue to open new avenues for the transmission of infectious agents. Other changes in human behavior like increased air travel, automated food processing, and threats of bioterrorism are increasing the contagion factor by transporting microbes further distances and to larger populations in virtually no time at all. While the authors urge that a better understanding of past diseases may help us lessen the severity of some illnesses, they also warn that, given our increasingly crowded planet, it is not a question of if but when and how often animal-transmitted diseases will pose serious challenges to human health in the future.

Disease Transmission --- Disease Outbreaks --- Zoonoses --- Animal-borne diseases --- Communicable diseases between animals and human beings --- Zoonotic diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Animals as carriers of disease --- Zoonotic Diseases --- Zoonotic Infections --- Zoonotic Infectious Diseases --- Zoonotic Spillover --- Disease, Zoonotic --- Disease, Zoonotic Infectious --- Diseases, Zoonotic --- Diseases, Zoonotic Infectious --- Infection, Zoonotic --- Infections, Zoonotic --- Infectious Disease, Zoonotic --- Infectious Diseases, Zoonotic --- Spillovers, Zoonotic --- Zoonotic Disease --- Zoonotic Infection --- Zoonotic Infectious Disease --- Zoonotic Spillovers --- Disease Reservoirs --- Public Health --- Communicable Diseases, Emerging --- Infectious Disease Outbreaks --- Outbreaks --- Disease Outbreak --- Disease Outbreak, Infectious --- Disease Outbreaks, Infectious --- Infectious Disease Outbreak --- Outbreak, Disease --- Outbreak, Infectious Disease --- Outbreaks, Disease --- Outbreaks, Infectious Disease

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Microbial Forensics describes the new and growing field of Microbial Forensics- the science that will help bring to justice criminals and terrorists who use biological material to cause harm. This book describes the foundation of the field of microbial forensics and will serve as a basic primer to initiate those scientists and officials that have an interest in the topic. It covers a variety of areas from forensic science, to microbiology, to epidemiology, to bioinformatics, and to legal issues.* Provides the real science beyond that displayed on TV and in the movies * Cover

Epidemiology. --- Forensic sciences --- Criminal investigation --- Biological warfare. --- Epidemics --- Medical microbiology. --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Communicable diseases --- Bacterial warfare --- Bacteriological warfare --- Biowarfare --- CBR warfare --- Disease warfare --- Germ warfare --- Pathogenic bacteria --- Bioengineering --- War --- Public health --- Outbreaks --- War use --- Pandemics --- Cold War Biological warfare --- Biological warfare

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Communicable Diseases. --- Communicable diseases. --- Maladies infectieuses --- Infectious Diseases --- Communicable Disease --- Disease, Communicable --- Disease, Infectious --- Diseases, Communicable --- Diseases, Infectious --- Infectious Disease --- Disease Outbreaks --- Disease Transmission, Infectious --- Communicable diseases --- Communicable Diseases --- Contagion and contagious diseases --- Contagious diseases --- Infectious diseases --- Microbial diseases in human beings --- Zymotic diseases --- Diseases --- Infection --- Epidemics