Published July, 2009
By A. D. Cliff, M.R. Smallman-Raynor, P. Haggett, D.F. Stroup, S.B. Thacker, A.D. Cliff and Peter Haggett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series
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This book is a world geography of emerging diseases from antiquity to the present day. The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of 'new' infectious diseases. This book looks at the epidemiological and geographical conditions which underpin disease emergence.

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Published June, 2006
By M.R. Smallman-Raynor, A.D. Cliff and Andrew D. Cliff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series
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This book is a world geography of poliomyelitis from antiquity to the present day. In the twentieth century, poliomyelitis emerged to become a global crippler and killer. But with the development of preventive vaccines in the 1950s poliomyelitis looks set to be the first disease since smallpox in 1979 to be eliminated by direct human intervention.

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