History of Infectious Disease Pandemics in Urban Societies Hardt Mark D.Paperback
History of Infectious Disease Pandemics in Urban Societies Hardt Mark D.Paperback Beginning in the mid-19th century tremendous gains were made in the historical struggle with infectious diseases. The…
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History of Infectious Disease Pandemics in Urban Societies Hardt Mark D.Paperback
Beginning in the mid-19th century tremendous gains were made in the historical struggle with infectious diseases. The conquest of infectious disease has created a human hubris. The emergence of modern medicine and epidemiology, and the establishment of public health measures, helped urban populations overcome a historical death penalty.
When these advances began in the mid-19th century the world's population was under two billion, mostly non-urbanized. It is a collective self-delusion that infectious diseases, once exposed to the light of modern medicine, science, and public health would inevitably become eradicated. At the dawn of the 21st century the world's population already surpassed seven billion.
The world's once far flung urban populations have exponentially expanded in number, size, and connectivity. Infectious diseases have long benefited from the concentration of human
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