Emerging Zoonoses : A Worldwide Perspective

• Main Author: Fong, I. W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Virology.; Infectious diseases.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319508900
• Physical Description: XV, 250 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource.

The book begins with a review of zoonotic pandemics of the past: the "Black Death" or bubonic plague of the Middle Ages, the Spanish Influenza pandemic (derived from avian influenza) of the early 20th century, to the more modern pandemic of AIDS/HIV infection, which originated in Africa fr...