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Clostridium botulinum, 10, 10–11 Epulopiscium fishelsoni, 11–12
common cold viruses, 14 ESBL-producing
communicable, definition of, 9 Enterobacterales, 35
coronaviruses, 15 Escherichia coli (E. coli), 11, 23,
COVID-19, 13–14 24
deaths/illness from, 39 Espinoza, Antonio, 39
emergence of, 38
transmission of, 22 Fauci, Anthony, 43, 44, 45–46
vaccines for, 42–43 fleas, 27–28, 44
Crnich, Christopher, 52 Food and Drug Administration,
cryptococcal meningitis, 18 US (FDA), 42, 57
Cryptococcus neoformans, 18 fungi, 16–17
cytokines, 41
cytoplasm, 12, 34 genital herpes, 21
definition of, 34 Ghebreyesus, Tedros Adhanom,
38
death(s) Global Tuberculosis Report 2020
COVID-19, 39, 42–43 (World Health Organization), 39
HIV/AIDS, 32–33 global warming, reemergence of
infectious diseases, 6, 7 ancient diseases and, 50–51
malaria, 29 gonorrhea, 21
MRSA, 52
prevented by TB treatment, 37 hookworms, 25
in Spanish flu epidemic, 39 hospital-acquired infections, 12,
vector-borne diseases, 5 22
dengue fever, 4–5 human immunodeficiency virus
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), 12 (HIV), 21
diarrheal diseases, 7, 17 infection process, 33–34
Dicks, Jodie, 4–5 number of people living with, 32
Dicks, Kay, 5 transmission of, 33
direct transmission, 20–22 human papillomavirus, 21
droplet transmission, 22
Drug-resistant Streptococcus immune system/immune reaction,
pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae), 9, 18
35 aging and, 47
HIV and, 31, 33–34, 36
emerging infectious disease (EID), overreaction by, 11, 15, 41
45 TB and, 36, 37
End TB Strategy (World Health indirect transmission, 22–23
Organization), 37–38 infectious diseases
epidemiology, definition of, 22 annual global deaths from, 6
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