Although communicable infections have been known to man since the dawn of time, outbreaks of communicable infections still occur regularly. Known and unknown communicable infections continue to emerge and re-emerge due to factors such as drug-resistant microbes, the over-use of antimicrobial drugs, and many others. Many changes in society have weakened healthcare systems while enhancing the effects of poverty and malnutrition. Although the mortality...

Con un punto de vista informativo y científico sobre la pandemia del coronavirus, COVID-19 y el virus que sacudió al mundo examina el virus y sus profundos efectos en las sociedades de todo el planeta. Este libro es un recurso valioso y cautivador para cualquiera que quiera saber más acerca del COVID-19 y sobre lo que podemos hacer para protegernos de él, ahora y en el futuro. Los temas tratados en la obra incluyen: - Una introducción a los...

Fighting an Invisible Enemy narrates the founding and growth of the internationally renowned National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa, from its foundations in the early twentieth century as the South African Institute for Medical Research to, later, the National Institute for Virology. It started humbly, as did many of its sister public health institutions around the world, and faced daunting obstacles: financial restrictions,...

Dissenting Voices-an Imprint of Abundant World Institute-is dedicated to helping create and foster the conditions that enable human flourishing and abundance everywhere. To these ends, we seek to inspire, inform, educate, encourage, enable, and support the application of critical thinking, imagination, and innovation to global challenges. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is one global grand challenge that is on everyone's mind, and is likely to remain...

Being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity.

This report details the key achievements of the Regional Malaria and Other Communicable Disease Threats Trust Fund from its creation in 2013 to the first half of 2018. It provides detailed analysis of the results by outcome, profiles specific projects that serve as exemplars of the fund's impact, and offers insights into how similar trust funds can be managed for success in future.

Data and marketing consultant and statistical sage to presidential candidates, governors, businesses, and the real powers-that-be, epidemiologists, Justin Hart catalogs in a terrifying-but-sprightly manner the folly and psychosis produced by the pandemic and diagnoses the societal destruction that the massive overresponse to the COVID virus has wreaked, as well as what can be done to stop the madness and bring the world back to a modicum of rationality. WORST....

A Gut Reaction is an entertaining as well as informative true story about the author's battle to save her son's life - or at least his large intestine - from a very severe case of Crohn's disease. With persistence, humour, much searching of the Internet and the help of two unusual doctors, one in Canada and the other in Australia, she and her son, who was in his early twenties, finally find a regime of fecal infusions that replaces the bacteria that...

We are living through an upheaval of such historic proportions that it's hard to know if we were giving birth to a new and wonderful world or actually destroying all that we have known as good, true, and beautiful. But what's behind it all? Is the catastrophic fallout of the global COVID-19 pandemic response simply the result of well-intentioned overcorrection to a mysterious and fearsome disease we believed would mercilessly claim the lives of millions?...

Telemedicine Services: An Argument for Use in Africa, Haiti, and the U.S. Virgin Islands Healthcare Systems examines the benefits of Telemedicine against the backdrop of the reality that existing systems are deficient, not prioritized by the governments, and people - especially those residing in rural areas - are suffering, even dying. Telemedicine technology can help repair and expand these broken health systems and bring critical health services...