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acquired immunodeficiency syndrome Chan, Margaret, 26, 47, 62
(AIDS), 9, 14–17, 110 chikungunya, 39, 43, 46–47, 50
air travel, and disease transmission, 23–26, symptoms of, 47–48
28, 33 treatment for, 47
anthrax, 17, 38–39, 74 cholera, 17, 22, 71, 74–77
antibiotic resistance, 20, 80–95, 116 Vibrio cholerae, 75
antibiotics civets, 27–28, 57
antibiotic-free meat, 92 climate change, and disease transmission,
development of, 92–95 23, 39
livestock, use in, 83–86, 91–92 extreme weather, 35–36, 36, 38, 77
misuse of, 23, 83–86 clinical trials, 47, 92–93
proper use of, 90–92, 109 Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness
pseudouridimycin (PUM), 94–95 Innovations (CEPI), 113–114
technology, 91 contact tracing, 29, 65
antigen drift, 100–101 infographic, 30
antigens. See also influenza virus coronavirus, 28, 57–59, 65
hemagglutinin (H), 98–100 cut hunter, 15
neuraminidase, 99–100
antigen shift, 100, 107 deforestation, and disease transmission, 54
asylum seekers, 69 dengue fever, 22, 39, 43, 45–48, 50, 69
symptoms of, 46
bacteria treatment for, 46
conjugation, 17–18, 20, 83 deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), 19–20, 21, 38,
infographic, 11, 18–19 77, 82–83
mutation, 82–83 disease, weaponization of, 71
parts of, 18–20 disease control, 38, 73, 90–91, 109–110,
preventing infection, 94 114–119
spread of, 22–23, 25, 39, 80–81, 85–86 disease detectives, 32, 60
transduction, 83 disease surveillance, 109–110
transformation, 83 Doctors Without Borders, 62
Yersinia pestis, 10–11
bats. See also resevoir Ebola, 8–9, 17, 22, 46, 54, 56, 60–65, 74, 98,
Chinese horseshoe bats, 28, 57 102, 110–111, 113–114, 119
and disease transmission, 23, 33, 55–57, 59 symptoms of, 62–63
fruit bat, 55, 57 treatment for, 62–63
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 112–113 encephalitis, 45, 70
binomial nomenclature, 11 epidemiology, 9
bioterrorism, 74 Frieden, Tom, 81, 86, 106
Black Death, 8–11
Brilliant, Larry, 6 genetic modification, 74, 114–116
bubonic plague, 9, 12 giant virus, 38–39
global warming, 36, 117
camels, 58–59, 65. See also Middle East Guillain-Barré syndrome, 48, 105
respiratory syndrome (MERS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention habitat destruction, 54–55
(CDC), 14, 26, 32–33, 41–42, 60, habitat disruption, 23, 54–55, 59, 109
73–74, 81, 84, 97, 104, 106–107, Haiti, and cholera outbreak, 75–77
110–111, 116 HIV/AIDS, 14–16, 110

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