The New Plagues by Kaufmann, Stefan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

THE NEW PLAGUES: Pandemics and Poverty in a Globalized World Contents Editor’s Foreword Preface 1 Introduction 2 The Invaders

2.1 Introduction 2.2 Bacteria 2.3 Viruses 2.4 Protozoa 2.5 Fungi and worms 2.6 Prions

3 The Defenders

3.1 Introduction 3.2 Making it difficult to penetrate the lines 3.3 Behind the barriers 3.4 Help for the defense: vaccines 3.5 Misdirected immunity: allergy and autoimmune diseases

4 Coexistence of Mankind and Microbe

5 More Than a Body Count: The Major Infectious Diseases

5.1 From colds to pneumonia: respiratory infections are number one 5.2 Diarrheal diseases and food poisoning 5.3 Children’s diseases: far more than just a difficult start 5.4 HIV/AIDS 5.5 Tuberculosis: the white plague 5.6 AIDS and tuberculosis: two diseases, one patient 5.7 Malaria 5.8 Influenza in humans and birds 5.9 SARS: half way around the world in twelve hours 5.10 Life in the shadowlands: the neglected tropical diseases

6 Antimicrobials

7 Self-defense: Immunization

7.1 Introduction 7.2 Vaccines for the masses 7.3 Immunization risks: myths and truths 7.4 Me and the rest of the world

8 Poverty and Infectious Diseases from a Global Point of View

8.1 Introduction 8.2 Money, health, education 8.3 The Who’s Who of organizations 8.4 Economic strategists 8.5 TRIPS: patent rights versus treatment rights 8.6 Flagships of healthcare improvement 8.7 Ambitious goals 8.8 Theoretically no problem 8.9 Update I: déjà vu? 8.10 Update II: mid-point review 8.11 Policymakers 8.12 Finger in the wound 8.13 The specialists 8.14 Public-private partnerships (PPPs) 8.15 Foundations

9 Swimming Against the Tide

9.1 The quest for blockbusters 9.2 Economic viability 9.3 No one needs flops 9.4 Talking doesn’t help 9.5 New incentives 9.6 Pooling expertise 9.7 A global fund as a clarion call 9.8 Push or pull to success 9.9 Research incubators 9.10 In the trenches

10 Hot Spots for Old and New Epidemics

11 Five To or Five Past Twelve?

11.1 Controversial but convincing 11.2 Expensive but still affordable 11.3 Everyman’s right, everyman’s duty 11.4 Act globally 11.5 It can work 11.6 Sunny with cloudy spells 11.7 Outlook

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