Emerging Biological Threats

Joan R. Callahan has a PhD from the University of Arizona and has worked as a researcher and consultant for over 30 years, most recently as an epidemiologist for the Naval Health Research Center and as a contractor for the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

• Preface1. IntroductionPublic Health: A Short HistoryKoch and His PostulatesHazard, Threat, and RiskOutbreaks, Epidemics, and PandemicsWhat Is Popular Culture?More DefinitionsSo How Bad Is It?2. Five Big OnesHIV Disease and AIDSMalariaTuberculosisInfluenzaHepatitis B and C3. Five More (and Complications)MeaslesDysenteries and Enteric FeversDengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic FeverBad Bugs and Miracle DrugsEmerging DiseasesWhat about Pneumonia?What about Meningitis and Encephalitis?Conclusion4. Food InsecurityWhat about Bees?Mad Cow DiseaseFoot-and-Mouth DiseaseAnthraxRinderpestHeartwaterClassical Swine FeverBlue-Ear Pig DiseaseNewcastle DiseaseAvian InfluenzaHoneybee Colony Collapse DisorderConclusion5. Food Insecurity, ContinuedCitrus Tristeza VirusBacterial WiltSouthern Corn Leaf BlightCitrus CankerLate Blight of PotatoSoybean RustWitches' Broom DiseasePhoma Stem CankerAsian Soybean AphidLocustsConclusion: One to Grow On6. Making Things WorseToo Many Babies: OverpopulationToo Much Carbon: Global Climate ChangeNot Enough Food: Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and DeathToo Much Food: Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 DiabetesToo Many Sick People: The Healthcare CrisisToo Many Angry People: BioterrorismToo Many Experts: The Bogus Health IndustryToo Many Drugs: Substance AbuseToo Much UV: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion RevisitedToo Many Cooks: Environmental Management IssuesConclusion7. Fighting BackPart 1: Balking the Enemy's PlansHealth EducationBetter FoodA Higher PowerBasic ResearchWater, Toilets, and GarbagePart 2: Preventing the Junction of the Enemy's ForcesLookouts: Surveillance and ScreeningArming the People: VaccinationHolding the Line: Convenient BarriersThe Fifth Column: Ringers and DecoysA Clean Camp: Home, School, and WorkplacePart 3: Attacking the Enemy's Army in the FieldKilling the Enemy: Snipers and WMDsDisabling the Enemy's Transportation: Inconvenient BarriersDestroying the Enemy's Resources: Habitat ModificationEnlisting Allies: Biological ControlsBugout: Postexposure ProphylaxisPart 4: Besieging Walled CitiesMopping Up: Disease Eradication and EliminationOccupation: Public Health EnforcementRecruitment: Help WantedWho's Going to Pay for This?Tuberculosis: The Million-Year WarPostscript: Making FriendsIndex

"Callahan, who has worked as a researcher and consultant and most recently as an epidemiologist for the Naval Health Research Center, provides a resource on significant biological threats to human health, as well as those having indirect impact by destroying livestock and crops. Focusing on the US, she explores HIV, influenza, drug-resistant pathogens, tuberculosis, meningitis, malaria, hepatitis B and C, measles, and other diseases; animal diseases like mad cow disease and avian flu; threats to crops like citrus tristeza virus, late blight of potato, and bacterial wilt; human activities that have increased the risk associated with certain diseases, including overpopulation, the healthcare crisis, and global climate change; and what can be done about them. In discussing these threats, she incorporates information on popular culture, the threat level, risk factors, statistics, history, and prevention and treatment." - SciTech Book News