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ribonucleic acid (RNA), 12 Enterococcus (VRE), 35
vector, definition of, 26
Sabin, Nundu Sabiti, 47–48, vector-borne diseases
49–50 air travel and, 48
schistosomes, 25 climate change and, 50
severe acute respiratory deaths from, 5
syndrome (SARS), 7, 44 increases in, 44–45
sexually transmitted diseases vector transmission, 26–27
(STDs), 21 Vibrio cholerae, 24
Simond, Paul-Louis, 27 viruses
Spanish flu pandemic (1918– categories of, 13–14
1920), 32, 39 causing AIDS, 34
Staphylococcus aureus, 11 immune response to, 15–16
symptoms
COVID-19, 40 West, Jerry, 31
HIV infection, 34, 36 West Nile fever, 5
immune response and, 11 WHO. See World Health
syphilis, 21 Organization
World Bank, 49, 50
Tabish, Syed Amin, 9 World Health Organization
TB. See tuberculosis (WHO), 5, 57
Texas Biomedical Research on deaths from
Institute, 30 noncommunicable diseases, 8
Thorpe, Ken, 54 on drug-resistant malaria,
tick(s), 5, 27, 45 52–53
Trichinella spiralis, 18, 19 on emerging infectious
trichinosis, 18 diseases, 45
trichomoniasis, 21 on hospital-acquired infections,
tuberculosis (TB), 36–37 12
annual deaths from, 7 on tuberculosis, 36, 37–38
bacterium causing, 36 work on antimicrobial
COVID-19 pandemic and resistance, 53–54
detection of, 38–39
latent infections of, 37–38 yellow fever, 5
Yersinia pestis, 27–28
vaccines/vaccination, 7, 51
against COVID-19, 39, 42, Zika virus fever, 5, 44
42–43 Zipperian, Debbie, 25–26
tuberculosis, 37 zoonosis, definition of, 38
virus mutations and, 52 zoonotic (diseases), 46
vancomycin-resistant definition of, 45
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