World atlas of epidemic diseases

Book title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION......Page 12
The nature of diseases......Page 13
Disease burdens at the national level......Page 17
Defining epidemics......Page 18
Epidemics in world history......Page 19
Epidemics as a branching process......Page 20
The nineteenth century......Page 22
Twentieth-century mapping......Page 23
New developments in disease mapping......Page 26
Choosing structures......Page 27
Further Reading......Page 30
CHAPTER 2 THE CLASSIC PLAGUES, I......Page 31
Nature of plague......Page 32
Past patterns: the ‘Black Death’......Page 33
Past patterns: later plague cycles......Page 34
Current geography of plague......Page 35
Nature of cholera......Page 36
Cholera waves in North America......Page 37
Cholera in nineteenth-century London......Page 38
Cholera in the Philippines, 1902–4......Page 40
Current geography of cholera......Page 41
Nature of leprosy......Page 43
Current geography of leprosy......Page 44
Further Reading......Page 46
CHAPTER 3 THE CLASSIC PLAGUES, II......Page 47
Nature of smallpox......Page 48
Vaccination and nineteenth-century smallpox......Page 49
Nature of measles......Page 52
Old World origins of measles......Page 53
New World extensions: the Americas......Page 54
New World invasions: the Pacific......Page 55
Changes in measles waves in the twentieth century......Page 57
The declining mortality from measles......Page 61
Past patterns of rabies......Page 62
Current geography of rabies......Page 63
Further Reading......Page 65
CHAPTER 4 PERSISTENT SCOURGES......Page 66
Past patterns of tuberculosis......Page 67
Current geography of tuberculosis......Page 71
Nature of syphilis......Page 72
Current geography of syphilis......Page 73
4.3 Typhus......Page 74
Nature of typhus......Page 75
Past patterns of typhus......Page 76
Nature of relapsing fever......Page 77
Past patterns of relapsing fever......Page 78
Further Reading......Page 79
CHAPTER 5 CHILDREN’S DISEASES......Page 80
Nature of typhoid......Page 81
Past patterns of typhoid......Page 82
Current geography of typhoid......Page 83
Past patterns of diphtheria......Page 84
Scarlet fever......Page 86
Whooping cough......Page 88
Rubella (German measles)......Page 90
Mumps......Page 91
Chickenpox......Page 93
Further Reading......Page 94
CHAPTER 6 WINTER AND SEASONAL AILMENTS......Page 95
Nature of influenza......Page 96
Early influenza epidemics......Page 97
Influenza waves in the northern hemisphere......Page 99
Impact on the southern hemisphere: Australia......Page 100
Identifying the causes of influenza......Page 101
The 1957 ‘Asian flu’ pandemic......Page 102
Current geography of influenza......Page 104
Seasonality in influenza......Page 105
The common cold......Page 106
Further Reading......Page 108
CHAPTER 7 TROPICAL DISEASES, I......Page 109
Nature of malaria......Page 110
Past patterns of malaria......Page 112
Current geography of malaria......Page 114
Burkitt’s lymphoma......Page 115
Nature of yellow fever......Page 116
Past patterns of yellow fever......Page 117
Nature of dengue......Page 118
Past patterns of dengue......Page 119
Current geography of dengue......Page 120
Nature of meningococcal disease......Page 121
Meningococcal disease and the African ‘meningitis belt’......Page 122
Further Reading......Page 123
CHAPTER 8 TROPICAL DISEASES, II......Page 124
Past patterns of sleeping sickness......Page 125
8.2 Chagas’ Disease......Page 127
Current geography of Chagas’ disease......Page 128
Nature of Leishmaniasis......Page 129
Current geography of Leishmaniasis......Page 130
Nature of schistosomiasis......Page 131
Past patterns of schistosomiasis......Page 132
Current geography of schistosomiasis......Page 133
Past patterns of river blindness......Page 134
Current geography of river blindness......Page 135
Filariasis......Page 136
Guinea worm......Page 139
Hookworm......Page 141
Further Reading......Page 143
CHAPTER 9 VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASES......Page 144
Spatial control strategies......Page 145
Local elimination and natural breaks in infection......Page 146
9.2 Global Eradication of Smallpox......Page 147
The WHO smallpox control programme......Page 148
Progress on eradication......Page 149
Post-eradication issues......Page 151
The US campaigns......Page 154
Current geography of measles......Page 156
Nature of poliomyelitis......Page 157
Past patterns of poliomyelitis......Page 158
Progress in the rest of the world......Page 160
Further Reading......Page 162
CHAPTER 10 NEWLY-EMERGENT DISEASES, I......Page 163
10.1 Emergence of New Diseases......Page 164
Mechanisms of disease emergence......Page 165
Nature of AIDS......Page 166
Origin of AIDS......Page 167
The global magnitude of AIDS......Page 168
Regional transmission patterns......Page 169
Pattern I: AIDS in the United States......Page 170
Transition I/II: AIDS in the Caribbean......Page 172
Gonorrhoea......Page 174
Hepatitis B......Page 175
Further Reading......Page 177
CHAPTER 11 NEWLY-EMERGENT DISEASES, II......Page 178
Nature of legionnaires’ disease......Page 179
Current geography of legionnaires’ disease......Page 180
Past patterns of Lyme disease......Page 181
Other tick-borne fevers in North America......Page 182
Nature of Ebola-Marburg fever......Page 183
Past patterns of Ebola-Marburg fever......Page 184
Current geography of Ebola-Marburg fever......Page 185
Other tropical haemorrhagic fevers......Page 186
11.4 Other Newly-Emergent Diseases......Page 187
Neurological disorders: kuru and CJD......Page 188
Cryptosporidiosis......Page 189
Buruli ulcer......Page 191
Further Reading......Page 192
CHAPTER 12 CHANGING PATTERNS OF DISEASE......Page 193
Economic development and disease......Page 194
Population shift and disease......Page 195
Land use change and disease......Page 196
Global warming and disease......Page 197
Disease implications of global shrinkage......Page 198
Conventional wars: tsutsugamushi and the Pacific campaigns......Page 199
Anthrax and bio-terrorism......Page 201
Conflict and disease eradication......Page 202
12.4 Future Surveillance and Control......Page 203
Further Reading......Page 206
APPENDIX A: EPIDEMIC DISEASES ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB......Page 208
APPENDIX B: GLOSSARY OF TERMS......Page 209
REFERENCES......Page 211
D......Page 218
I......Page 219
M......Page 220
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T......Page 222
Z......Page 223