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