Clear-Cutting Disease Control
Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection
The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity.By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne outbreaks.Ecosystems in which such pathogens are largely controlled by environmental stochasticity are being drastically streamlined by both agribusiness-led deforestation and deficits in public health and environmental sanitation.Consequently, a subset of infections that once burned out relatively quickly in local forests are now propagating across…
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Weitere Autoren: Wallace, Rodrick / Ayres, Constância / Hogerwerf, Lenny / Kock, Richard / Chaves, Luis Fernando / Bergmann, Luke R.
- ISBN: 978-3-319-72850-6
- EAN: 9783319728506
- Produktnummer: 26115079
- Verlag: Springer
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'439 KB
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Rodrick Wallace, Division of Epidemiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Luis Fernando Chaves, Department of Vector Ecology and Environment, Institute of Tropical Medicine at Nagasaki University Luke Bergmann, Department of Geography, University of Washington Constância Ayres, Vice-Director, Fiocruz, Brazil Lenny Hogerwerf, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands Richard Kock, Department of Pathology and Pathogen Biology, Royal Veterinary College, London Robert G. Wallace, Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota
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