Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response

by Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats, Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century, Institute of Medicine, et al.

Infectious diseases are a global hazard that puts every nation and every person at risk. The recent SARS outbreak is a prime example. Knowing neither geographic nor political borders, often arriving silently and lethally, microbial pathogens constitute a grave threat to the health of humans. Indeed, a majority of countries recently identified the spread of infectious disease as the greatest global problem they confront. Throughout history, humans...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030908864X
• ISBN13: 9780309088640
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.2"