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Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Zoonotic Disease Addendum is a supplemental document to the Department's emergency disease response plans providing additional information on current zoonotic diseases and the threat they pose to animal and human health. This document presents information on zoonotic diseases significant to public health addresses the threat of bioterrorism, and offers recommendations on how animal health responders can reduce the risk of exposure to a zoonotic disease...
10) West Nile virus
Description
West Nile virus has emerged in recent years in temperate regions of Europe and North America, presenting a threat to public, equine, and animal health.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Authored by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions about animal diseases that jump to humans--called zoonoses--including what attracts them to humans, why they have become more common in recent history, and how we can keep them at bay. Almost all pandemics and epidemics have been caused by diseases that come to us from animals, including SARS, Ebola, and--now--Covid-19. Epidemiologist, veterinarian, and ecosystem health...
14) Pointe, Claw
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"After eight years of separation childhood best friends are reunited. One is studying to be a professional ballerina, the other has a rare disease that is rapidly taking its toll"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"The real story of AIDS--how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people--is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how AIDS began and spread. Excerpted and adapted from the book Spillover, with a new introduction by the author, Quammen's ... investigation tracks the virus from chimp populations...