Plague: Past, Present, and Future
Organisation: PLoS Medicine
Publish Date: January 2008 |
Country: Global
Sector: Health
Method: Casual layered analysis
Theme: Infectious Diseases
Type: Article
Language: English
Tags: Neglected Diseases
Recent experience with SARS (severe acute respiratory
syndrome) [1] and avian flu shows that the public and political response to threats from new anthropozoonoses can be near-hysteria. This can readily makeus forget more classical animal-borne diseases, such as plague(Box 1).
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