Poliomyelitis
A World Geography: Emergence to Eradication
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 June 2006
- ISBN 9780199244744
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages768 pages
- Size 242x164x41 mm
- Weight 1414 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 217 figures; 43 halftones; numerous tables 0
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Short description:
This book is a world geography of poliomyelitis from antiquity to the present day. In the twentieth century, poliomyelitis emerged to become a global crippler and killer. But with the development of preventive vaccines in the 1950s poliomyelitis looks set to be the first disease since smallpox in 1979 to be eliminated by direct human intervention.
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For parents, few infections scored higher than poliomyelitis on the 'dread' factor from the early years of the twentieth century as each successive wave of the disease outdid its predecessor in the number of children it crippled and killed. But, from the 1950s, this picture abruptly changed when preventive vaccines were developed which have brought the disease to the edge of global eradication. Part I, Epidemic Emergence, 1881-1920, looks at the transition from endemic to epidemic poliomyelitis in Europe and the United States. Part II, Global Expansion, 1921-55, covers the pre-vaccination period of epidemic poliomyelitis at world, continental and island scales. Part III, Global Retreat, 1955-88, focuses upon the control of poliomyelitis by mass vaccination campaigns. Part IV, Global Eradication, concludes the book by focusing upon the road to eradication, to which the Forty-first World Health Assembly committed in 1988.
And so, at the beginning of a new millennium, poliomyelitis looks set to be the first disease since smallpox in 1979 to be eradicated by direct human intervention, with the interruption of wild poliovirus transmission expected in 2005. The evolution of poliomyelitis to global epidemiological significance from the 1920s marks it out as one of the world's major emergent infections of the twentieth century. What causes diseases to wax and wane in time and space is a theme of contemporary scientific interest as we seek to understand the appearance of new conditions such as Ebola fever, Legionnaires' disease, and HIV, and this book contributes to our comprehension of likely causes.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Nature of Poliomyelitis
The Pre-epidemic History of Poliomyelitis (Antiquity to AD 1880)
Part I
Epidemic Emergence, 1881-1920: Early Centres and Localized Outbreaks
Europe
New Worlds
Part II
Global Expansion, 1921-55: Epidemic Poliomyelitis in the Pre-vaccine Era
Introduction to Part II
Epidemic Trends: An International Perspective
Mainland North America
Mainland Europe
Islands
Part III
Global Retreat, 1955-1988: Returning Localized Outbreaks
Introduction to Part III
Vaccination: The United States Campaigns
Vaccination in the Rest of the World
Part IV
Global Eradication
Introduction to Part IV
The Global Poliomyelitis Eradication Initiative (1988-2008 and Beyond)
