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This book is an annual collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters authored by various researchers, offering a comprehensive overview of recent studies and developments in the field of Infectious Diseases. It joins work from four areas in this field, Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic, and Viral Infectious Diseases, each edited by an expert. The global challenges and different living circumstances for people around the globe ask for a deep understanding of various aspects and properties of infectious diseases to ensure a safer and healthier cohabitation of humans and pathogens.

This book provides updated information on helminth infections, with proposals for new treatments and biological factors of risk, the development of vaccines for the control of helminthiasis and explains the latest research on the field. It also delves into multi-omics, diagnosis, immunology, and novel molecule targets. In addition, the book examines topics such as host-parasite interaction. Key Features: ¿ Provides basic and clinical evidence based on molecular interactions to address the risks and benefits of helminthiasis ¿ Presents the results of new vaccine development ¿ Discusses new and old therapeutic approaches in helminth infections ¿ Delves into advances in the molecular and immune response in helminth infection ¿ Proposes a One Health approach to study helminth infections ¿ Analyzes the controversies and confusions in the management, biology, and control strategies of helminth infections ¿ Examines the basic biology of helminth parasites

" In Epidemics and the American Military, Dr. Jack McCallum examines the major role the military has played propagating and controlling disease throughout this nation's history. The U.S. armed forces recruit young people from isolated rural areas and densely populated cities, many of whom have been exposed to a smorgasbord of germs. After training and living in close contact with each other for months, soldiers are shipped across countries and continents and meet civilians and other armies. McCallum argues that if one set out to design a perfect world for an aggressive pathogen, it would be hard to do better than an army at war. There are four ways to combat epidemic infectious diseases: quarantine, altering the ecology in which infections spread, medical treatment of infection, and immunization. Each has played a specific but often overlooked role in American wars. A case can be made that General George Washington saved the American Revolution when he mandated inoculation of the Continental Army with smallpox. The Union Army might very well have taken Richmond in 1862 had it not been for an epidemic of typhoid fever during the Peninsular Campaign. Yellow fever was a proximate cause of the American invasion of Cuba in 1898, and its control enabled a continued U.S. presence on the island and in the rest of the Caribbean. Had it not been for influenza, German Gen. Erich Ludendorff might well have succeeded in his offensive in the closing years of World War I. Before senior Army and Naval officers recognized the importance of anti-malarial prophylaxis and forced its acceptance by hesitant troops, the World War II Solomon and New Guinea campaigns were in danger of collapsing. "--

The plethora of miscommunication and disinformation about how SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) spreads suggests a widespread misunderstanding of how viruses work. This book will focus on the interpretation of scientific and medical results, giving the reader guidance on interpreting virological data, including the concepts of 'live' versus infectious virus.

The COVID-19 Response in New York City: Crisis Management in the Largest Public Health System provides an historical accounting of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of the largest public health system in the United States. The book offers a roadmap to guide healthcare systems and their providers in the event of future pandemics. Readers will learn about surge staffing and level loading, as well as tips from the ED and ICUs on how to respond to an unprecedented influx of inpatients. Written by healthcare providers who were at the epicenter of the pandemic in New York City, this book provides a sound accounting of the response to the pandemic in one of the world's largest cities.

Drawing on interviews and focus groups with nearly 200 women from a range of backgrounds and occupations - including healthcare workers, educators, and parents - Conscripted to Care reveals how structural inequalities put women on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, yet with inadequate resources and little voice in decision-making.

This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs and wishes in diverse surroundings in the Northern periphery and beyond.It asks how physical, social and emotional distances shape older people's everyday lives and practices. Contributions from leading experts provides interdisciplinary investigations into the experiences and stories of older people in the Northern periphery. These insights demonstrate the utility of the concept, distance, when reflecting on the central aspects of contemporary ageing societies. The book explores key themes such as care, age politics, technology, intergenerational relations and migration, providing perspectives that are applicable across a variety of international geographical contexts.This innovative book offers a valuable theoretical and methodological contribution with critical new perspectives on ageing in relation to distances. It will be of interest to students and scholars interested in sociology, human geography, health and social care, ageing and gerontological studies, gender studies and Arctic studies.

This book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is poised to be a permanent fixture in the modern world which in contemporary times will be thought of in terms of before and after the pandemic. It looks at how the pandemic has brought to the fore the question of the appropriate ethics, politics, and spirituality and highlights the present condition of humanity and the need to rethink alternative planetary futures. It argues that the pandemic has existential and epistemic implications for human life on planet Earth, and a post-COVID-19 future requires a fundamental transformation of the present economic, political, and social conditions.Drawing on empirical case studies on the COVID-19 pandemic from Africa and beyond, contributions in this book challenge the reader to rethink alternative planetary futures. It will be a useful resource for students, scholars, and researchers of African studies, citizenship studies, global development, global politics, human geography, migration studies, development studies, international studies, international relations, and political science.

"Candace Pert stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the women's movement, integrative health, and psychopharmacology. A scientific prodigy, she was 30 years ahead of her time, preaching a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare and medicine long before yoga hit the mainstream and 'wellness' took root in our vernacular. Her bestselling book Molecules of Emotion made her the mother of the Mind/ Body Revolution, launching a paradigm shift in medicine. Deepak Chopra credits her with creating his career, and he said as much in his eulogy at her funeral. Candace began her career as an unbridled maverick. In 1972, as a 26-year-old graduate student at Johns Hopkins, she discovered the opiate receptor, revolutionizing her field and enabling pharmacologists to design new classifications of drugs from Prozac to Viagra to Percocet and OxyContin. The tragic irony of her breakthrough, touted as the first step to end heroin addiction, is that it helped spawn a virulent epidemic of drug dependence. Facing the largest public health crisis of the 21st century, Candace was incensed that the Hippocratic oath-'first, do no harm'-would succumb to greed, and as witness to this abuse of power, she was one of few scientists courageous enough to protest. Later, as Chief of Brain Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace created Peptide T, the non-toxic treatment for HIV featured in Dallas Buyers Club. As the AIDS pandemic raged, triggering panic across Reagan-era America, the U.S. government poured massive amounts of money into finding a cure, sparking a battle among scientists for funding and power. Bested by rivals with competing drugs yet desperate to help, Candace went rogue, becoming a lynchpin in the black market for Peptide T. After a scandalous departure from her tenured position at the NIH, Candace launched a series of private companies with Michael Ruff, her second husband and collaborator. Naèive to the world of business, she was manipulated by investors keen to wrest control of her discoveries. But Candace too became tainted, believing that her noble ends would justify devious means. Like a mythic hero, she succumbed to a fatal flaw, and her greatest strengths-singularity of purpose and blind faith in her own virtuosity-would prove to be her undoing"--

Tämä on hengenpelastuskäsikirja yksinkertaisista kodinhoitotoimenpiteistä, joista kaikkien tulisi olla tietoisia COVID-19 valossa. Monet ihmiset ovat kuolleet tai kärsivät pitkäaikaisista terveyshaasteista, koska heillä ei ole ollut tätä tietoa.Alkaen vaikuttavimmasta, tämä kirja vie lukijat askel askeleelta läpi helposti luettavan luettelon tee - se - itse hoitotoimenpiteistä, joiden pitäisi olla valmiita jokaisessa kodissa. Monet näistä immuunijärjestelmää tehostavista strategioista ovat samoja, jotka auttoivat joitakin parantoloita pitämään kuolleisuuden hieman yli 1:ssä prosentissa Espanjan influenssapandemian aikana vuonna 1918. Tämä kokemus oli erityisen merkittävä, kun otetaan huomioon, että useimmat yleissairaalat kärsivät kuolleisuusluvuista, jotka olivat lähempänä 30-40% tuona traagisena aikana.Tässä kirjassa ei ole kyse rokotuksista, maskeista, lisäravinteista, sosiaalisesta etäisyydestä tai karanteeneista. Pikemminkin se keskittyy keskeisiin strategioihin, jotka toteutettuina tekevät immuunijärjestelmämme rakentamisen paljon henkilökohtaisemmaksi. Vaikka tässä elämässä ei ole mitään varmuutta, jokaisen meistä on tehtävä kaikkemme vahvistaaksemme omaa puolustustamme. Tällä tavoin voimme nopeasti ja tehokkaasti puolustautua viruksia ja taudinaiheuttajia vastaan, joita saatamme kohdata.

"During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Seaview, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed facility, dubbed 'the pest house' where 'no one left alive.' Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this story follows the intrepid young women, the 'Black Angels,' who, for twenty years, risked their lives working under dreadful conditions while caring for the city's poorest--1,800 souls languishing in wards, waiting to die or become 'guinea pigs' for experimental (often deadly) drugs. Yet despite their major role in desegregating the NYC hospital system--and regardless of their vital work in helping to find the cure for tuberculosis at Seaview--these nurses were completely erased from history. The Black Angels recovers the voices of these extraordinary women and puts them at the center of this ... story celebrating their legacy and spirit of survival"

Governments, businesses, and individuals around the world are thinking about what happens after the COVID-19 pandemic. Can we hope to not only ward off another COVID-like disaster but also eliminate all respiratory diseases, including the flu? Bill Gates, one of our greatest and most effective thinkers and activists, believes the answer is yes.   The author of the #1 New York Times best seller How to Avoid a Climate Disaster lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should have learned from COVID-19 and what all of us can do to ward off another catastrophe like it. Relying on the shared knowledge of the world’s foremost experts and on his own experience of combating fatal diseases through the Gates Foundation, Gates first helps us understand the science of infectious diseases. Then he shows us how the nations of the world, working in conjunction with one another and with the private sector, how we can prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy. Here is a clarion call—strong, comprehensive, and of the gravest importance.

Digital epidemiology is the study of population level disease and health using one of the novel sources of digital data or new statistical methods that have developed over the past 20 years. Digital epidemiology includes the study of disease using mobile phone records, internet search data, sales data, and even the content of twitter messages. This book describes how digital epidemiology developed and where it is going.

Comprehensive resource covering key developments in biosensor-based diagnostics for infectious diseases With its overview of currently available technologies, Point-of-Care Biosensors for Infectious Diseases serves as a starting point for the successful development and application of pathogen biosensors in a point-of-care setting. Here, expert authors review current challenges in pathogen detection and the selection of suitable biomarkers, detail currently available biosensor platforms including electrochemical, piezoelectric, magnetic, and optical sensors, and cover technology development for point-of-care biosensors for viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections. Point-of-Care Biosensors for Infectious Diseases covers key topics such as: Fundamentals of biosensor detection, with a focus on optical and electrochemical techniques Organic and inorganic based nanomaterials for healthcare diagnostics Strategies for miniaturizing biosensor devices, and state-of-the-art integrated sensing platforms Latest trends in point-of-care biosensing systems to detect, diagnose, and monitor infectious diseases Providing comprehensive coverage of the subject, Point-of-Care Biosensors for Infectious Diseases is an excellent reference for all developers, researchers, and technology managers in the areas of molecular diagnosis, infectious diseases, biosensors, and related fields.

The world turned upside down and came to a screeching halt at the beginning of 2020 when the deadly COVID-19 virus swept across the globe and killed millions in its wake. Author Jackie A. James was diagnosed with the disease in March 2020 and was in critical condition. Not only was she diagnosed with covid-19, but also double pneumonia and the flu. But thanks to the incredible power of God and the quick medical attention from the hospital staff, she was healed. While I Was Under: Surviving Covid-19 "Thirty-Five Days of Peace" is her incredible story of diagnosis, survival, and recovery. Experience the fear of a patient who didn't know she would survive, the unconditional love her family and loved ones had for her, and her faith in a Lord who held her in His arms as she slowly, but surely recovered. This is an incredible story from the perspective of someone who was diagnosed with the deadly virus at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with her being in the critical state she was in; it is incredible how she is able to recount what she remembers and talk about what others told her. What a blessing she is still around to tell her story. Many families will be able to relate to her story, whether they had loved ones who were diagnosed or endured COVID themselves. Jackie A James is a mother of one son and two grandsons. She also has a daughter-in-law in waiting. She has been in a long-term relationship with her other half James "JT" Turner for nine years. She is an Automobile Claims Specialist, by profession and a published author by chance and gift. She has over thirty-six years in the insurance claims business. While working in the insurance industry, she was able to obtain my Senior Claims Law Designation, and became a certified Subrogation Arbitrator, for the State of New Jersey, along with several other certificates and accolades. Jackie is also a member of Gamma Phi Delta Sorority Inc. Epsilon Alpha Chapter. Jackie could be reached at meekalove121@aim.com.

Den mikroskopiske verden er super spændende og fuld af vidt forskellige bakterierNår du kigger i et mikroskop, er det som at se ind i en anden verden fuld af sære, urolige væsener, der opfører og bevæger sig sært.Disse mystiske mikrober findes alle vegne - omkring os, på os, og inden i os. Vi lever fredeligt sammen med nogle af dem, og vi er i krig med andre.Nogle af de skabninger, du møder i denne bog, er væmmelige og farlige, mens andre er helt fantastiskeDu kan for eksempel læse om de bakterier, som får dig til at prutte, de mider, som lever i dine øjenvipper, samt den stygge form for svamp, der nærmest forvandler myrer til zombier!Tjek i ordlisten bagerst i bogen, hvis du ser ord, du ikke ved, hvad betyder.

Meticulously reviewed and updated for today's medical students, Basic Immunology, 7th Edition, is a concise text expertly written by the same distinguished author team as the best-selling, comprehensive text, Cellular and Molecular Immunology. This focused, easy-to-understand volume has been fully revised to include recent important advances in our understanding and knowledge of the immune system. A student favorite through six outstanding editions, this new edition uses full-color illustrations and clinical images, useful tables, and practical features such as Summary Point boxes, end-of-chapter review questions, glossary terms, and clinical cases-all designed to help you master this complex topic in the most efficient, effective manner possible. Emphasizes clinical aspects of immunology, including disease pathogenesis, the development of novel therapies based on basic science, and an appendix of clinical cases for real-world application.  Contains new and expanded content on pandemics, COVID-19, and herd immunity; resistance and susceptibility to COVID-19; RNA vaccines and hybrid viral vaccines; tumor immunotherapy; innate immune responses to viruses; mechanisms of immunologic tolerance; and immunotherapy for autoimmune, allergic, and other inflammatory diseases, and cancer.  Provides unrivalled instruction from an expert author team, all of whom are experienced teachers, course directors, and lecturers.  Features a highly readable writing style and practical organization, now with fully revised content and updated images to cover new information and improve reader understanding of complex concepts.  Provides additional online features such as answers to in-book chapter review questions and self-assessment questions.  Presents information in a format and style that maximizes usefulness to students and teachers of medicine, allied health fields, and biology.  Contains numerous features designed to help students understand key immunologic concepts: high-quality illustrations, practical tables, chapter outlines, bolded key points, and focus questions in every chapter for self-assessment and review.  An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all the text and figures, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. In The Real AIDS Epidemic, Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system. It is rare that a researcher, having studied HIV, ever expresses any doubt in the paradigm, and an even rarer event still when she abandons the field altogether. Culshaw's book, updated from its original edition, which was titled Science Sold Out, is one of the great insider-turned-whistleblower stories of our time.  The Real AIDS Epidemic focuses on the politics of the changing definition of AIDS and the flaws in all HIV testing. In a much broader sense, it explains how the current, government-based structure of scientific research has corrupted science as the search for truth. It offers not only scientific reasons for HIV/AIDS being untenable, but also sociological explanations as to how the theory was accepted by the media and the world so quickly. In particular, this book offers a scathing criticism of the outrageous discriminatory measures that have been leveled at HIV-positives from the inception. She also warns that the toxic drugs being foisted on the Black and gay communities constitute one of the worst medical violations of human rights since the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.    The compelling case she makes that the AIDS establishment has led us into a biomedical disaster through incompetence, fraud, and deceit will have many readers throwing their hands up and feeling helpless and hopeless. But she does something no other book that is critical about HIV and AIDS has done. She suggests a series of strategic actions the scientific community, Congress, the media, and the public can take to undo the damage that the powerful AIDS establishment has done since the epidemic began in 1981.