Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease

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Edition: 1
Release: 2001-04-15
Publisher: National Academies Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0309072786
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease. With today's technology, some hope that it will be possible to build models for predicting the emergence and spread of many infectious diseases based on climate and weather forecasts. However, separating the effects of climate from other effects presents a tremendous scientific challenge. Can we use climate and weather forecasts to predict infectious disease outbreaks? Can the field of public health advance from "surveillance and response" to "prediction and prevention?" And perhaps the most important question of all: Can we predict how global warming will affect the emergence and transmission of infectious disease agents around the world? Under the Weather evaluates our current understanding of the linkages among climate, ecosystems, and infectious disease; it then goes a step further and outlines the research needed to improve our understandi Download Under the Weather for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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