Main description:

With many Asian countries experiencing increasing economic growth and globalization, infectious diseases that were once contained in certain pockets of the continent now proliferate throughout its geographical area. It is the alarming prospect of unchecked epidemics that makes this book so crucial. The chapters cover the historical description of infectious diseases, analyze the causes of them and even forecast outbreaks, as well as the regional and global impact of these diseases. There is a pressing need for public health professionals worldwide to know and understand the variety of these infections, the methods through which they are transmitted, and the ways to control and prevent them. This comprehensive text offers them just that.

Contents:

Avian Flu.- Influenza: Biology, Infection, and Control.- The Past and Present Threat of Avian Influenza in Thailand.- Transmission of Avian Influenza Viruses to Humans: Viral Receptor Specificity and Distribution in Human Airways.- SARS.- Investigation of Animal Reservoir(s) of SARS-CoV.- SARS Epidemic: SARS Outbreaks in Inner-land of China.- The 2003 SARS Outbreak In Singapore: Epidemiological and Clinical Features, Containment Measures, and Lessons Learned.- The 2003 SARS Outbreaks in Taiwan.- HIV/AIDS.- HIV/AIDS: Lessons from a New Disease Pandemic.- AIDS in China.- Other Infections.- Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli's Endemicity in Developing Countries and Its Emergence During Diarrheal Epidemics and Natural Disasters.- Human Cases of Hemorrhagic Fever in Saudi Arabia Due To a Newly Discovered Flavivirus, Alkhurma Hemorrhagic Fever Virus.- Disease Outbreaks Caused by Emerging Paramyxoviruses of Bat Origin.- Multidrug Resistant TB, TB Control, and Millennium Development Goals in Asia.- Emergence of Staphylococcus aureus with Reduced Susceptibility to Vancomycin in Asia.