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This volume explores topics relating to epidemics by presenting varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise these issues. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions.
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Infectious diseases are a threat to America and the world / Margaret A. Hamburg et al.
The media exaggerate the risks of infectious diseases / Colin Schultz
The AIDS pandemic is still a global health threat / Josh Ruxin
The AIDS pandemic can be eliminated / Clare Wilson
The threat of a heterosexual AIDS pandemic is over / Jeremy Laurance
The obesity epidemic poses a global health threat / Rita E. Carey
The obesity epidemic is a myth / Patrick Basham and John Luik
The Indian superbug NDM-1 is a growing health threat / Michael Hanlon
H1N1 was never a serious threat to world health / Daniel J. Ncayiyana
H1N1 could have posed a serious threat to world health / Mark Honigsbaum
The government manufactured the H1N1 threat / Karen DeCoster
The government did not manufacture the H1N1 threat / Sam Vaknin
Pharmaceutical companies paid health experts to hype the H1N1 threat / Rudi C. Loehwing
Health experts were not paid to hype the H1N1 threat / Debora MacKenzie
Requiring mandatory vaccination is dangerous / Associated Press
Vaccines are safe and effective / Brenda L. Bartlett and Stephen K. Tyring
Compelling evidence shows that vaccines trigger autism / J.B. Handley
Vaccines do not cause autism / Kelley King Heyworth
Vaccination refusal is a right to safeguard personal health / Sherri Tenpenny
Vaccination refusal endangers public health / Saad B. Omer et al.
Federal and state authorities are not prepared for a serious pandemic / Stephen E. Flynn and Irwin Redlener
Americans' concerns about vaccination must be overcome to prepare for future pandemics / Gillian K. SteelFisher et al.
America is not prepared for bioterrorism attacks / Tara O'Toole
America is better prepared for bioterrorism attacks / Aaron Katz, Andrea B. Staiti, and Kelly L. MacKenzie
Nations have not shown willingness to overcome self-interest in fighting pandemics / John Barry.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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