Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response

by Board on Global Health, Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century, Institute of Medicine

Infectious diseases are a global hazard that puts every nation and every person at risk. The recent SARS outbreak is a prime example. Knowing neither geographic nor political borders, often arriving silently and lethally, microbial pathogens constitute a grave threat to the health of humans. Indeed, a majority of countries recently identified the spread of infectious disease as the greatest global problem they confront. Throughout history, humans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309278759
• ISBN13: 9780309278751
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"