Seven Modern Plagues : and How We Are Causing Them - Walters, Mark Jerome; SpringerLink (Online service) (Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2014)
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Dark Side of Progress: Mad Cow Disease -- 2. A Chimp Called Amandine: HIV/AIDS -- 3. The Travels of Antibiotic Resistance: Salmonella DT104 53 -- 4. Of Old Growth and Arthritis: Lyme Disease -- 5. A Spring to Die For: Hantavirus -- 6. A Virus from the Nile -- 7. Birds, Pigs, and People: The Rise of Pandemic Flus -- Epilogue: MERS-CoV and Beyond -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Keywords: Environmental pollution; Medicine; Health promotion; Terrestrial Pollution; Biomedicine, general; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention