Island Epidemics

By P. Haggett, A.D. Cliff, M. R. Smallman-Raynor

In Island Epidemics, the authors show that the complex warfare of invasion and extinction observed by Darwin for plants and animals applies with equal force to human diseases. A world picture is presented of diseases, which range from the familiar (influenza and German measles) to the exotic
(kuru and tsutsugamushi), and islands which range in remoteness, from the accessible United Kingdom to the inaccessible Tristan da Cunha and Easter Island.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198288956
• ISBN13: 9780198288954
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 13.2"