Advances in Human Vector Control

by Hitoshi Kawada, J. Marshall Clark, Jeffrey Bloomquist

A combination of population growth, public health failures, environmental degradation and rapid global transportation has resulted in a world that is at increasing risk to vectorborne and other infectious diseases. A large percentage of emerging diseases are vectorborne and over one-third of the agents on the list of greatest concern from bioterrorism are vectorborne. Many of these diseases are viral that have no effective drug or vaccine treatments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0841269777
• ISBN13: 9780841269774
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"