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SARS
A Case Study in Emerging Infections

Edited by Angela R. McLean, Robert M. May, John Pattison, and Robin A. Weiss

Price: £34.95 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-856819-3
Publication date: 10 March 2005
142 pages, 2 halftones, 2 maps, 30 line illus., 246x189 mm
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Reviews
  • ''generally well written and haves sufficient depth to be informative.' - SCIENCE
  • ''It is hard to think of a more eloquent group of people writing in this general arena... I would certainly use the book as additional reading in the course I teach...'' - Professor Andrew Dobson (Princeton University)

Description
  • Provides a modern overview of the science of emerging infectious diseases
  • Written by leading experts in the field
  • Tells the story of the emergence and global spread of SARS
  • Considers SARS in the context of the generic issues relating to the control of emerging infections
  • Introductory and concluding chapters draw out common themes and lessons learned
The sudden appearance and rapid spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2002 served to alert the world to the fact that emerging infections are a global problem. Living in affluent societies with well-developed healthcare systems does not necessarily protect people from the dangers posed by life-threatening infections. The SARS epidemic tested global preparedness for dealing with a new infectious agent and raised important questions: how did we do, and what did we learn?

This book uses the SARS outbreak as a case study to enumerate the generic issues that must be considered when planning the control of emerging infections. Emerging infections are more than just a current biological fashion: the bitter ongoing experience of AIDS and the looming threat of pandemic influenza teach us that the control of infectious disease is a problem we have not yet solved. Scientists from a broad range of disciplines-biologists, veterinarians, physicians, and policy makers-all need to prepare. But prepare for what?

SARS: a case study in emerging infections provides an up-to-date and accessible overview of the tasks that must be addressed by a community that wishes to confront emerging infections. Each chapter is written by a world expert and offers an authoritative and timely overview of its subject. While focusing on SARS, the book addresses a whole range of pertinent considerations and issues, from the use of new mathematical models to account for the spread of infection across global airline networks, to a discussion of the ethics of quarantining individuals in order to protect communities. The book will be of interest to students, academics, and policy makers working in the fields of disease ecology, medicine, and public health.

Readership: Upper level undergraduates, graduate students, and policy makers in disease ecology, medicine, and public health.

Contents
1. Introduction , Angela McLean, Robert May, John Pattison, and Robin Weiss
2. Environmental and social influences on emerging infectious diseases: past, present, and future , A.J. McMichael
3. Evolutionary genetics and the emergence of SARS coronavirus , Edward C. Holmes and Andrew Rambaut
4. Influenza as a model system for studying the cross-species transfer and evolution of the SARS coronavirus , Robin Bush
5. Management and prevention of SARS in China , Nanshan Zhong and Guangqiao Zeng
6. Confronting SARS: A view from Hong Kong , Malik Peiris and Y. Guan
7. The aetiology of SARS: Koch's postulates fulfilled , A.D.M.E. Osterhaus, R.A.M. Fouchier, and T. Kuiken
8. Laboratory Diagnosis of SARS , A. Bermingham, P. Heinen, M. Iturriza-Gomara, J. Gray, H. Appleton, and M. Zambon
9. Animal origins of SARS coronavirus: possible links with the international trade in small carnivores , Diana Bell, Scott Roberton, and Paul R Hunter
10. Epidemiology, transmission dynamics and control of SARS: the 2002-2003 epidemic , Roy M. Anderson, Christophe Fraser, Azra C. Ghani, Christl A. Donnelly, Steven Riley, Neil M. Ferguson, Gabriel M. Leung, T. H. Lam, and Anthony J. Hedley
11. Dynamics of modern epidemics , D. Brockmann, L. Hufnagel, and T. Giesel
12. The international response to the outbreak of SARS, 2003 , David L. Heymann
13. The experience of the 2003 SARS outbreak as a traumatic stress among frontline healthcare workers in Toronto: lessons learned , Robert Maunder, William Lancee, Sean Rourke, Jonathan Hunter, David Goldbloom, Ken Balderson, Patricia Petryshen, Molyn Leszcz, Rosalie Steinberg, Donald Wasylenki, David Koh, and Calvin S.L. Fones
14. Informed consent and public health , Onora O'Neill
15. What have we learnt from SARS? , Angela McLean and Robin Weiss
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Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Angela R. McLean, Oxford University,
Robert M. May, Oxford University,
John Pattison, UK Department of Health, and
Robin A. Weiss, University College London


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