Infectious and contagious diseases

Essential resource for the fight against emerging infectious diseases Incidences such as the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the 2015 appearance of Zika in Brazil provide dramatic evidence of the continued ability of microbes to emerge, spread, adapt, and threaten global health.

Can today's innovative practices and molecular tools tame this ancient disease?

Zoonoses are a persistent threat to the global human health Today, more than 200 diseases occurring in humans and animals are known to be mutually transmitted.

What are concussions, diabetes, flu and cancer?

Did you know that how you got sick will determine what treatment methods will work for you?

Get smart about germs to escape them at all possibilities.

Let's take a look into the scientific world of diseases.

How do you empower children against diseases?

Sickness does not always lead to deaths.

Did you know that the simple practice of handwashing can save you from diseases?

Did you know that germs are things that you cannot see but can be passed on to different people?

Here's to opening the medicinal world to your children.

Learn about the microscopic germs that make you sick!

Teach your children how to protect themselves for whenever you will be away from them.

Let's talk about germs and why things so tiny can bring so much harm to the body.

Have you ever had a cold?

Similarly to the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11 of 2001, a foundational event that marked the turn of the century, the recent virus outbreak in Wuhan, China resonates heavily in the social imaginary of West.

Outbreaks of infectious diseases-such as Ebola, Zika, and pandemic viruses-have raised concerns from Congress about how federal agencies use modeling to, among other things, predict disease distribution and potential impacts.

The coronaviruses are ssRNA viruses that infect a wide range of mammalian and avian species; they are important causes of respiratory and enteric disease, encephalomyelitis, hepatitis, serositis and vasculitis domestic animals.

This compilation provides a compact overview of the feasibility and clinical impact of novel therapies for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), with a focus on monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, bacteriophages, liposomes and nanotechnology, photodynamic therapy, homeopathy and botanical medicine.

Helicobacter pylori is classified as a gram-negative, spiral and microaerophilic bacterium and considered one of the most common causes of gastric infections worldwide.

HIV/AIDS: Pathophysiology, Prevention and Treatment first discusses how depression and anxiety occur more frequently in people living with HIV/AIDS than in the general population.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory illness that can spread from person to person.

Virtually all cervical cancer cases are caused by human papilloma viruses (HPV), mainly HPV-16 and HPV-18.

Centuries ago, predicting was an enterprise entrusted to magic and fortune tellers, while today it is the domain of knowledge to which researchers and scientists contribute daily, analyzing and interpreting pathologies, trying to decode the complexity of life, represented by unresolved problems.

Wound healing is a complex cascade of events that led to reconstruct a damaged tissue with cellular and biological mechanisms.

Thoracic lymphadenopathy consists of mediastinal and/or hilar lymphadenopathy.

Leprosy: From Diagnosis to Treatment discusses the current public health challenges in leprosy control face, exploring opportunities that may potentially accelerate progress towards the elimination of leprosy.

The opening study included in West Nile Virus: Outbreaks, Control and Prevention Strategies aims to design and implement an efficient data-driven agent-based model of West Nile virus spread, considering highly-mobile humans with a high level of heterogeneous properties.

To mitigate the spread of the rare and deadly disease Ebola, Ebola Virus Disease (EVD): Outbreaks, Control and Prevention Strategies begins with the proposition of a mathematical model with vital dynamics and two preventive measures: quarantine and isolation.

The opening chapter of Living with HIV/AIDS: Challenges, Perspectives and Quality of Life is concerned with exploring the implications of living with invisible conditions in both social and professional networks, and how that may impact their overall health and wellbeing.

Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen transmitted to humans through ingested food.

This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy, autopathography (illness narratives), and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS.

The world is under constant threat of a virus evolving into a global plague.

Surviving AIDS involves making all the right movesand even then, your life is at risk.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'Brilliant!

The USA Today Bestseller 'The infectious disease expert who predicted the spread of coronavirus' - Daily Mail'Osterholm has produced a sharp, persuasive and urgent manifesto for how the world needs to think differently about natural threats, offering a blueprint for setting priorities and explaining why the infrastructure of global health needs reconfiguring.

The must-have health bible that explains exactly how to stay in radiant, optimal health all year round.

A vital, timely text on the viruses that cause pandemics and how to face them, by the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Die.

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was an English social reformer, statistician, and pioneer of modern nursing.

This book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa.

AIDS and cancer are neither random nor infectious diseases.

As the Zika virus continues to spread throughout North America, people need answers.

Pandemic is an explosive medical thriller about a deadly virus, from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook.

Rabies is the most current and comprehensive account of one of the oldest diseases known that remains a significant public health threat despite the efforts of many who have endeavored to control it in wildlife and domestic animals.

'Manaugh and Twilley shed illuminating light on a phenomenon that seems utterly of the present moment.

In this captivating memoir Mona Sen talks of current life with multiple sclerosis.

For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic.

Following completion of his medical training and a one-year stint as attending physician on Howard Champion's Surgical Critical Care Service and MedStar Unit at Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia, Kenneth Liegner, M.