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ISBN: 9780195313802 0195313801 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

The social ecology of infectious diseases
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ISBN: 9780123704665 0123704669 9786611144746 1281144746 0080557147 9780080557144 Year: 2008 Publisher: Boston ; Amsterdam ; London : Academic Press,

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Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases explores how human activities enable microbes to disseminate and evolve, thereby creating favorable conditions for the diverse manifestations of communicable diseases. Today, infectious and parasitic diseases cause about one-third of deaths and are the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The speed that changes in human behavior can produce epidemics is well illustrated by AIDS, but this is only one of numerous microbial threats whose severity and spread are determined by human behaviors. In this book, forty experts in the fields of infe


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Foodborne disease outbreaks : guidelines for investigation and control
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ISBN: 9241547227 9786612250040 1282250043 9240683828 Year: 2008 Publisher: Geneva : World Health Organization,

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The investigation and control of foodborne disease outbreaks are multi-disciplinary tasks requiring skills in the areas of clinical medicine, epidemiology, laboratory medicine, food microbiology and chemistry, food safety and food control, and risk communication and management. Many outbreaks of foodborne disease are poorly investigated, if at all, because these skills are unavailable or because a field investigator is expected to master them all single-handedly without having been trained.These guidelines have been written for public health practitioners, food and health inspectors, district

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