Environmental and social influences on emerging infectious diseases: Past, present and future

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1447, 2004, Pages 1049-1058

  McMichael, A J ^a  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emerging infections; Environmental causes; History; Human ecology; Social causes

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL CHANGE;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS; VARIOLA VIRUS;

EID: 3242657337     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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