Epidemics

Book 2011

This volume explores topics relating to epidemics by presenting varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise these issues. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions.

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ISBN:

9780737752205
9780737752199
0737752203
073775219X

Description:

273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Infectious diseases are a threat to America and the world / Margaret A. Hamburg et al.
The media exaggerate the risks of infectious diseases / Colin Schultz
The AIDS pandemic is still a global health threat / Josh Ruxin
The AIDS pandemic can be eliminated / Clare Wilson
The threat of a heterosexual AIDS pandemic is over / Jeremy Laurance
The obesity epidemic poses a global health threat / Rita E. Carey
The obesity epidemic is a myth / Patrick Basham and John Luik
The Indian superbug NDM-1 is a growing health threat / Michael Hanlon
H1N1 was never a serious threat to world health / Daniel J. Ncayiyana
H1N1 could have posed a serious threat to world health / Mark Honigsbaum
The government manufactured the H1N1 threat / Karen DeCoster
The government did not manufacture the H1N1 threat / Sam Vaknin
Pharmaceutical companies paid health experts to hype the H1N1 threat / Rudi C. Loehwing
Health experts were not paid to hype the H1N1 threat / Debora MacKenzie
Requiring mandatory vaccination is dangerous / Associated Press
Vaccines are safe and effective / Brenda L. Bartlett and Stephen K. Tyring
Compelling evidence shows that vaccines trigger autism / J.B. Handley
Vaccines do not cause autism / Kelley King Heyworth
Vaccination refusal is a right to safeguard personal health / Sherri Tenpenny
Vaccination refusal endangers public health / Saad B. Omer et al.
Federal and state authorities are not prepared for a serious pandemic / Stephen E. Flynn and Irwin Redlener
Americans' concerns about vaccination must be overcome to prepare for future pandemics / Gillian K. SteelFisher et al.
America is not prepared for bioterrorism attacks / Tara O'Toole
America is better prepared for bioterrorism attacks / Aaron Katz, Andrea B. Staiti, and Kelly L. MacKenzie
Nations have not shown willingness to overcome self-interest in fighting pandemics / John Barry

LCCN:

2010052249

Control Number:

830509

Other Authors:

Haugen, David M., 1969-
Musser, Susan

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