Beasts of the Earth
Animals, Humans, and Disease
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Author
Publication
2005 - Rutgers University Press
Language
English
Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780813537894
- ISBN-100813537894
- Better World Books9780813537894
- Open LibraryOL33972316M
Classifications
- LCCRA639.T676 2005
- LCCRA
Description
"Beginning with the domestication of farm animals nearly 10,000 years ago, Beasts of the Earth traces the ways that human-animal contact has evolved over time. Today, shared living quarters, overlapping ecosystems, and experimental surgical practices where organs or tissues are transplanted from non-humans into humans continue to open new avenues for the transmission of infectious agents. Other changes in human behavior like increased air travel, automated food processing, and threats of bioterrorism are increasing the contagion factor by transporting microbes further distances and to larger populations in virtually no time at all." "While the authors urge that a better understanding of past diseases may help us lessen the severity of some illnesses, they also warn that, given our increasingly crowded planet, it is not a question of if but when and how often animal-transmitted diseases will pose serious challenges to human health in the future."--BOOK JACKET.
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