"Frighteningly fascinating."--Booklist"Gripping stories, filled with details that are in equal part delicious and disgusting, but always fascinating."--Lisa Sanders, MD, author of Every Patient Tells a Story and the New York Times Magazine "Diagnosis" column"To reproduce promiscuously and to wreak havoc wherever they can find a home," this is the sole raison d\' tre of Viruses writes Dr.
Andiman reveals the most important steps that we can, and must, take to stem the spread of Animal viruses, explaining, "The zoonoses I.
He describes some current trends in vaccine and antiviral drug development, and introduces organizations like the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, the Eco Health Alliance, and the National Academy of Medicine Commission on Global Risk Framework for the Future, all of which are tasked with anticipating future zoonoses.
In these essays, Andiman looks to the future, making reference to the worrisome effects on zoonoses of climate change, microenvironmental damage, population shifts, and globalization.
He also illustrates the labor intensive and fascinating detective work that infectious disease specialists must do to uncOver the source of an outbreak.
Through these examples he describes the fundamental characteristics of Zoonotic viruses: what they look like, where they come from, how they invade so efficiently, and when and why they infect human populations.
Andiman traces the history of eight deadly zoonoses as they make the leap to human populations: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Swine influenza, Hantavirus, Monkeypox, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Rabies, Ebola, and HenipaViruses (Nipah and Hendra).
Andiman introduces readers to the ominous world of Zoonotic viruses, those deadly microbes that sometimes spread directly from animals to humans.
In Animal Viruses and Humans, A Narrow Divide, Dr.
Warren Andiman, an HIV/AIDS researcher who has been on the front lines battling infectious diseases for Over forty years. "Frighteningly fascinating."--Booklist"Gripping stories, filled with details that are in equal part delicious and disgusting, but always fascinating."--Lisa Sanders, MD, author of Every Patient Tells a Story and the New York Times Magazine "Diagnosis" column"To reproduce promiscuously and to wreak havoc wherever they can find a home," this is the sole raison d\' tre of Viruses writes Dr
