The health of nations : infectious disease, environmental change, and their effects on national security and development / Andrew T. Price-Smith.

In recent decades, new pathogens such as HIV, the Ebola virus, and the BSE prion have emerged, while old scourges such as tuberculosis, cholera, and malaria have grown increasingly resistant to treatment. The global spread of disease does not threaten the human species, but it threatens the prosperi...

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Main Author: Price-Smith, Andrew T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
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