This is the 5th edition and 20th anniversary edition of Communicable Diseases: A Global Perspective, a single-author book by Roger Webber. The book covers a huge topic, but is compact, 340 paperback pages in the flesh, and also available as an e-book. It is small enough to carry around without risk of injury, and is reasonably priced for a textbook. At first glance one learns that the book has ...

Infectious disease during an emergency condition can raise the death rate 60 times in comparison to other causes including trauma. An epidemic, or outbreak, can occur when several aspects of the agent (pathogen), population (hosts), and the environment create an ideal situation for spread. Overcrowding, poor regional design and hygiene due to poverty, dirty drinking water, rapid climate changes...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Transmission probability 2.1 The binomial model of transmission 2.2 Contacts with persons of unknown infection status 2.3 The secondary attack rate 2.4 Transmission probability ratio 2.5. Augmented study designs 2.6 Validation sets 3. Basic reproductive number

The English-speaking Caribbean is in transition toward communicable disease health patterns seen in the more developed world. Structural adjustment policies in recent years have weakened control measures, such as water supply and sanitation, as illustrated by recent outbreaks of typhoid fever in Jamaica (1990-1991), increased malaria incidence in Suriname and Guyana (with temporary importation ...

Some of the recent communicable disease problems in Hong Kong are summarised to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of how Hong Kong currently controls and prevents communicable diseases. Suggestions on how Hong Kong could improve the control and prevention of communicable diseases are made.

Historically, international law has played a key role in global communicable disease surveillance. Throughout the nineteenth century, international law played a dominant role in harmonizing the inconsistent national quarantine regulations of European nation-states; facilitating the exchange of epidemiological information on infectious diseases; establishing international health organizations; a...