Emergence of Infectious Diseases : Risks and Issues for Societies.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morand, Serge.
Other Authors: Figuié, Muriel., Keck, édéric., Gilbert, Claude., Brender, Nathalie., Roger, François., Zylberman, Patrick.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Versailles : Quae, 2018.
Series:Matière à débattre et Décider Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword by Frédéric Keck, Anthropologist, CNRS
  • Introduction
  • 1. Biogeography and the ecology of emerging infectious diseases. Serge Morand
  • Characteristics of emerging infectious diseases
  • Factors of emergence: climate change, biodiversity, land use and globalization
  • Conclusion: Is the next plague certain?
  • 2. From emergence to emergences - a focus on pandemic influenza. Nathalie Brender, Claude Gilbert
  • WHO re-appropriation of the issue
  • SARS, H5N1 and H1N1 - emergence catalysts
  • An issue seeking owners - the French case
  • 3. Future as a moving target United States, CBRN risk and the scenario planning method: 1995-2008. Patrick Zylberman
  • Global setting
  • Immediate setting
  • Fortunes and misfortunes of triumphalism
  • Bill Clinton and the CRBN risk
  • George W. Bush - from prevention to preparedness
  • Scenario planning and worst-case scenarios
  • Stranglehold of fiction
  • 4. Collective action in response to emerging zoonotic diseasesMuriel Figuié
  • Emerging zoonotic diseases - modern collective risks and collective action
  • Motives and barriers to collaboration between individuals
  • Challenges facing the expansion of collectives
  • A new paradigm for animal health?
  • Setting objectives for collective action against emerging zoonotic diseases
  • 5. Surveillance of emerging diseases: challenges and contradictions. François Roger
  • Epidemiologic rupture or transition?
  • What ever happened to the seventh pandemic?
  • The Horseman on the Roof
  • Black swans and perfect storms
  • Surveillance at all costs?
  • Broadening the battlefield
  • References
  • Acronyms
  • Contributors.