TY - BOOK AU - Webber,Roger ED - C.A.B. International, TI - Disease selection: the way disease changed the world AV - RA643 .W43 2015eb U1 - 362.1969 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK PB - CABI KW - Communicable diseases KW - Epidemiology KW - Communicable Diseases KW - history KW - Host-Pathogen Interactions KW - History and Biography KW - Pets and Companion Animals KW - Meteorology and Climate KW - Biological Resources (General) KW - Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology KW - Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000) KW - Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000) KW - Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000) KW - Human Health and the Environment KW - Taxonomy and Evolution KW - Bacterial diseases KW - cabt KW - Climate KW - Climate change KW - Disease distribution KW - Disease transmission KW - Disease vectors KW - Evolution KW - Foodborne diseases KW - Foods KW - Geographical distribution KW - Helminthoses KW - Helminths KW - History KW - Host parasite relationships KW - Hosts KW - Human diseases KW - Hygiene KW - Infections KW - Infectious diseases KW - Neoplasms KW - Parasites KW - Parasitoses KW - Pathogens KW - Pets KW - Protozoal infections KW - Public health KW - Spread KW - Vector-borne diseases KW - Viral diseases KW - World KW - Zoonoses N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The sexual revolution -- Out of Africa -- Host/parasite interaction -- Using a vector -- The great plagues -- Missionaries of death -- The slave trade in parasites -- Eden's garden of South America -- A glass of water -- The great war -- Man's best friend? -- The animal connection -- Not clean -- Too clean -- The food we eat -- Cancer -- Climate change and population movements -- Disappeared and emergent diseases -- The future -- Conclusions; Access limited to subscribing institution; Also available in print format N2 - This book contains 20 chapters covering a range of infectious diseases, as well as a few non-infectious diseases such as cancer, and how they greatly affected the course of human history. It explores host-pathogen relationship, transmission routes, evolution, and global spread of infectious diseases including numerous viral, bacterial, protozoal, and helminth infections. It also covers the contribution of pets (dogs and cats), food, hygiene, and climate change in the spread of infectious diseases. This book is a valuable resource for students, practitioners and researchers working in global health and anyone interested in the understanding of the basis of disease UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781780646824.0000 ER -