Warren Andiman

Animal Viruses and Humans, a Narrow Divide

How Lethal Zoonotic Viruses Spill Over and Threaten Us

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An in-depth look at how lethal animal viruses breach interspecies boundaries and threaten human populations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paul Dry Books, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9781589881228
• ISBN-10: 1589881222
• Artikelnr.: 47749300

Autorenporträt

Dr. Warren Andiman is Professor emeritus of pediatrics and epidemiology at the Yale Schools of Medicine and Public Health. He received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and completed his pediatric residency at Babies Hospital, part of the former Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. After serving a two-year stint as a Captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, he pursued a post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the Yale School of Medicine and joined the faculty on which he served for forty-two years. At the start of the AIDS epidemic Dr. Andiman, with his associates, created the Pediatric AIDS Care Program at Yale-New Haven Hospital and served as its medical director for thirty-two years. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, also a pediatrician. They have two daughters.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Foreword
2. Millions of tiny crowns wreak havoc in two kingdoms (or Never wipe a
camel's nose): MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome)
3. It's a good thing pigs don't fly: Swine influenza
4. Prairie dogs make lousy pets: Monkey pox
5. A civet? What's a civet?: SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
6. National parks can be hazardous to your health: Hantavirus
7. It's restraining bats and dogs: Rabies
8. Miniature masters of a million microenvironments: Viruses rule!
9. Behold the Earth... one mighty blood spot: Ebola virus disease
10. Nipah and Hendra viruses
11. Afterword
12. Acknowledgements