From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the authors' lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio,...

Since Aug 2018 there have been outbreaks of African swine fever in several provinces of China. At the end of 2018, the total amount of culled animals was 650,000. China's pig herd, by far the world's largest, was estimated then at 360 million animals. The pig should be half by the end of 2019 from a year earlier as an epidemic of African swine fever (ASF) sweeps through the world's top pork producer. Up to 200 million pigs have been culled or died...

Con la aparición del COVID-19, ha crecido en la población general el interés en los modelos matemáticos de las enfermedades infecciosas. Es común escuchar sobre el número reproductivo básico R, el pico de la pandemia, las políticas de mitigación de la enfermedad, entre otras. Una de las contribuciones más importantes en epidemiología matemática es el modelo comportamental propuesto por Kermack y McKendrick formulado en 1927.

Ethical dilemmas are not new in the area of health care and policy making, but in recent years, their frequency and diversity have grown considerably. All health professionals now have to consider the ethical implications of an increasing array of treatments, interventions and health promotion activities on an almost daily basis. This goes hand in hand with increasing medical knowledge, and the growth of new and innovative medical technologies and...

Excerpt: "It may be needless to acquaint the Reader why the following Sheets are published at this Time, we being all but too justly apprised of the Danger there may be, of wanting those Helps, which are here intended to be supplied, as far as such Means as these can do it."

Excerpt: "Take an Onion and cut him overthwart, then make a little hole in each peece, the which you shall fill with fine Triacle, then set the pieces together again as they were before, then wrap them in a white linnen cloth. Putting it so to roast in the Embers and Ashes, then when it is roasted enough press out all the juice of it: and give the patient a spoonful thereof to drink, and ſo by Gods help he shall feel saſe and most undoubtedly be...

Learn Epidemiology Fast is a comprehensive and detailed ebook about Clinical and Public health epidemiology with references for elaborate understanding of epidemic diseases.

A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone) stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics -- featuring a new preface on COVID-19. Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period of days, and illnesses, which have devastating effects but are limited to individuals and their families,...

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la Peste noire en moins d'une heure ! Déjà mise à mal par les guerres et famines à répétition, l'Europe doit lutter, en 1347, contre un fléau venu d'Asie : la Peste noire. Cette pandémie se répand comme une traînée de poudre à travers le continent, déstabilisant pour longtemps l'économie médiévale. Largement incomprise, nombreux sont ceux qui perçoivent la maladie comme un châtiment...

This workbook is designed to teach the major fundamental concepts in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and clinical research design alongside the textbook "Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2nd Edition". It is written in concise and organized fashion with many examples to illustrate the concepts deriving from a collection of written materials created to teach Epidemiology and Biostatistics to medical students. The major differences from related titles include...