Environmental policy and public health: emerging health hazards and mitigation, volume 2
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Authors -- Chapter 1 Environment-Related Infectious Diseases -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Infectious Diseases - A Global Perspective -- 1.3 The Environment and Infectious Diseases -- 1.3.1 Cholera -- 1.3.2 Typhus -- 1.3.3 Scabies -- 1.3.4 Implications for Environmental Health Policy: Clean Water and Sanitation -- 1.4 Zoonotic Diseases and Human Health -- 1.4.1 H1N1 Global Influenza Pandemic -- 1.4.2 Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic -- 1.4.3 Social Justice Issues -- 1.4.4 West Africa Ebola Epidemic -- 1.4.5 Measles Epidemics -- 1.4.6 Implications for Environmental Health Policy: Quarantine and Public Health -- 1.5 Emergence of Vector-Borne Diseases -- 1.5.1 Mosquito-Borne Diseases -- 1.5.1.1 Malaria -- 1.5.1.2 Yellow Fever -- 1.5.1.3 Dengue -- 1.5.1.4 West Nile Virus -- 1.5.1.5 Chikungunya Virus -- 1.5.1.6 Zika Virus -- 1.5.1.7 Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) Virus -- 1.5.1.8 Implications for Environmental Health Policy: Vector Control and Pesticides -- 1.5.2 Tick-Borne Diseases -- 1.5.3 Rodent- and Bat-Borne Diseases -- 1.5.4 Parasitic Diseases Caused by Worms -- 1.5.4.1 Helminth Infections -- 1.5.4.2 Guinea Worm Disease -- 1.5.5 The Kissing Bug -- 1.5.6 Superbugs -- 1.5.7 Research to Counter Superbugs -- 1.5.7.1 New Approaches to Antibiotics -- 1.5.7.2 Bacteriophage Therapy -- 1.5.7.3 Basic Research on Microorganism Mechanisms -- 1.5.8 Nosocomial Infections -- 1.5.8.1 Candida auris Infection -- 1.5.8.2 Klebsiella pneumoniae -- 1.5.9 Necrotizing Fasciitis (Flesh-Eating Bacteria) -- 1.5.10 Swimming Pool Bacteria -- 1.5.11 Legionnaires Disease -- 1.5.12 Naegleria Fowleri, the "Brain-Eating Ameba" -- 1.5.13 Implications for Environmental Health Vector Control Policies -- 1.6 Tropical Infectious Diseases.