Pandemics: past, present, future: That is like choosing between cholera and plague.
APMIS
; 129(7): 352-371, 2021 Jul.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1112203
ABSTRACT
The major epidemic and pandemic diseases that have bothered humans since the Neolithic Age and Bronze Age are surveyed. Many of these pandemics are zoonotic infections, and the mathematical modeling of such infections is illustrated. Plague, cholera, syphilis, influenza, SARS, MERS, COVID-19, and new potential epidemic and pandemic infections and their consequences are described and the background for the spread of acute and chronic infections and the transition to endemic infections is discussed. The way we can prevent and fight pandemics is illustrated from the old and new well-known pandemics. Surprisingly, the political reactions through different periods have not changed much during the centuries.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pandemics
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
APMIS
Journal subject:
Allergy and Immunology
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Microbiology
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Pathology
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Apm.13098
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