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    Emerging Zoonotic Viral Infections: Do They Find Us or do We Find Them? - Dr. C.J. Peters, Director for Biodefense, Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease, UTMB
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Zoonoses Resource Links

A list of interesting and helpful links to information about zoonotic infections.

 

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“In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.”
―Richard Preston, The Hot Zone

 

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Rabies

Rabies is an acute viral infection is transmitted to humans by a bite or by the exposure of broken skin to an infected animal's saliva. Immunization given early (preferably within 24 hours but certainly within 72 hours) can usually prevent the disease.

Image from: A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia [Internet]. Atlanta (GA): A.D.A.M., Inc.; ©2005. Rabies; [updated 2012 Aug 14; cited 2013 Feb 13]; [about 1 p.]. Available from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/17261.htm: 

 

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Henipavirus - Benhur Lee (Editor); Paul A. Rota (Editor)
Call Number: QW 4 C976 v.359 2012
ISBN: 9783642298189
Publication Date: 2012-09-06
Henipaviruses form a new genus of emerging paramyxoviruses that are the deadliest human pathogens within the Paramyxoviridae family. This volume deals with the many facets of henipavirus biology, and covers our current understanding regarding the ecology, molecular virology, and pathogenesis of henipavirus infections.

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Spillover - David Quammen
Call Number: WC 950 Q1 2012
ISBN: 9780393066807
Publication Date: 2012-10-01
The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia-but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover.

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Food-borne Parasitic Zoonoses - K. Darwin Murrell; Bernard Fried
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780387713588
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Humans suffer from numerous parasitic foodborne zoonoses, many of which are caused by helminths. The helminth zoonoses of concern in this book are normally limited to diseases of animals which have now become transmissible to humans. In the past these diseases were limited to populations living in low- and middle-income countries, but the geographical limits and populations at risk are expanding and changing because of growing international markets , improved transportation systems, and demographic changes (such as population movements).

 

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This project has been funded in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. HHSN-276-2011-00007-C with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.


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