Infectious disease
Subtitle: a Scientific American reader.
Contributors: University of Chicago. Press.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780226742632; 9780226742649
Subjects: Communicable Diseases -- Collected Works; Bacterial Infections -- Collected Works; Immune System -- microbiology -- Collected Works; Virus Diseases -- Collected Works
Genres: Collected Works.
Other titles: Scientific American.
Description: Collects thirty of the most exciting, innovative, and significant articles on communicable illness published in the pages of Scientific American magazine since 1993. With sections devoted to viral infections, infectious disease, the immune system, and global management and treatment issues, Infectious Disease provides general readers and students with an excellent overview of recent research in the field. Roger I. Glass discusses a potential vaccine for the rotavirus--a leading cause of severe childhood diarrhea world wide and frequent killer of young children in developing nations. Jeffery K. Taubenberger and colleagues investigate the virulent strain of influenza that killed up to 40 million people in 1919 to suggest treatments and recommend preventative measures. And Paul R. Epstein looks into whether global warming could be harmful to our health, untangling research that suggests that many diseases will flourish as Earth's atmosphere heats up.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.