Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence: Workshop Summary

by Alison Mack, Margaret A. Hamburg, Eileen R. Choffnes, et al.

Long before the germ theory of disease was described, late in the nineteenth century, humans knew that climatic conditions influence the appearance and spread of epidemic diseases. Ancient notions about the effects of weather and climate on disease remain embedded in our collective consciousness-through expressions such as cold for rhinovirus infections; malaria, derived from the Latin for bad air; and the common complaint of feeling under the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309124026
• ISBN13: 9780309124027
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"