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The most widely recognized sourcebook on infectious diseases provides detailed, accurate, informative text for public health workers in official and voluntary health agencies, including those serving in the armed forces and other governmental agencies, and for all students of medicine. Each listing is easy to read and includes identification, infectious agent, occurrence, mode of transmission, incubation period, susceptibility and resistance.
For this new edition, parallel updates have been carried out on most chapters by experts at both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, USA) and the World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland), the better to ensure its global relevance. New disease variants are included, and some chapters have been entirely reworked - the chapter on influenza, for example, includes separate sections on seasonal influenza and human influenza of avian/animal origin. New chapters have been added, following feedback from previous editions, in order to keep the manual as relevant as possible in the face of ever-changing public health needs. These new chapters include some topics fundamental to public health, such as infection control and responding to an outbreak report; others that are concerned with public health security in a globalized world, and encompass the International Health Regulations and deliberately-caused infectious disease outbreaks; and still others that provide practical guidance in communicable disease control at mass gatherings, after natural disasters, or in complex emergency situations.
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