Deadly viruses
By: Noah Berlatsky, book editor
Series: Current controversies; Current controversies
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780737774283; 9780737774290
Subjects: Health Policy; Therapy; Treatment; Virus Diseases; Prevention & control; Communicable diseases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Is ebola a serious threat? The world is in denial about ebola's true threat / Michael Gerson ; Obama announces military response to ebola / Gregory Korte ; Ebola threat in US, and we're not prepared to contain it, experts warn / Luis Fábregas, Adam Smeltz, and Megha Satyanarayana ; Confronting the global threat posed by ebola by investing in global public goods / David Gartner ; Why we won't have an ebola cure or vaccine for years / Jeffrey Young ; Treating ebola as a military issue is endangering safety and health / Yanzhong Huang ; Five public health threats in Texas scarier than ebola / Anna C. Gragsbaek ; Vaccines and treatments are being developed to treat ebola / World Health Organization; title: Should vaccines against deadly viruses be compulsory? Measles can kill, and it's spreading. Sue parents who didn't vaccinate? Absolutely / Dan Diamond ; School vaccination exemptions should be restricted / Emily Oshima Lee, Lindsay Rosenthal, and Gabriel Scheffler ; Educating anti-vaxxers doesn't work / Chris Mooney ; Tighter immigration vaccination policies are needed / Edith N. Nyangoma et al. ; Anti-vaxxers hould have the right to choose not to vaccinate / Jeffrey A. Singer ; Education can convince parents to vaccinate / Cochrane Community ; Forget "anti-vaxxers". The Disney measles outbreak could change the minds of a more crucial group / Todd C. Frankel ; Fear of unvaccinated immigrants is overblown / Rachel Pearson; title: Does an HIV/AIDS crisis still exist? African Americans face an ongoing AIDS crisis / Irene Monroe ; China continues to struggle with its AIDS crisis / Malcolm Moore ; Hemophobia in Russia is fueling an AIDS crisis / Hayato Watanabe ; The AIDS epidemic continues in Africa / AVERT ; All these AIDS "cures" are a fantasy; title: one that can cause real harm / Kent Sepkowitz ; South Africa is beating its AIDS epidemic / Jina Moore ; Australia's AIDS crisis is over / Abigail Groves ; Researchers have renewed hope for an HIV cure / Mary Engel; title: What are other controversies about deadly viruses? Save the smallpox virus / David Boze ; Eliminate the smallpox virus / Gareth Williams ; Do not require flu vaccines for health-care workers / Michael Gardam, Camille Lemieux, and Susy Hota ; Bird flu research will not create a bioweapon / Peter Christian Hall ; Eliminating polio is a worthwhile goal / Matthieu Aikins ; Eliminating polio may be impossible / Daniel Stolte; title: Organizations to contact.