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THE EMERGENCE OF NEW DISEASES: LESSONS LEARED FROM THE EMERGENCE OF NEW DISEASES AND THE RESURGENCE OF OLD ONES MAY HELP US PREPARE FOR FUTURE EPIDEMICS
Richard, Levins et al. | Date Issued: 1994
Author
Richard, Levins
Awerbuch, Tamara
Brinkmann, Uwe
Eckardt, Irina
Epstein, Paul
Makhoul, Najwa
Possas, Cristina de Albuquerque
Puccia, Charles
Spielman, Andrew
Wilson, Mary E.
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Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Population and International Health. Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Population and International Health. Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Population and International Health. Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Population and International Health. Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Population and International Health. Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Population and International Health. Boston, MA, USA.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Population and International Health. Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Population and International Health. Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Population and International Health. Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Population and International Health. Boston, MA, USA.
Keywords
New Diseases
Epidemics
Therapeutics
Communicable Diseases
 
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Sigma Xi (US)
Citation
RICHARD, Levins et al. The Emergence of New Diseases: Lessons leared from the emergence of new diseases and the resurgence of old ones may help us prepare for future epidemics. American Scientist, v. 82, n. 1, p. 52-60, 1994.
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0003-0996
Notes
The authors are members of the Harvard Working Group on New and Resurgent Diseases, scientists and practitioners who have been working together since 1991. The members are: ecologist Richard Levins, biomathematician Tamara Awerbuch, international health epidemiologist Uwe Brinkmann, philosopher of science lrina Eckardt, medical practitioner Paul Epstein, socialogist of science Najwa Makhoul, social scientist Cristina A. de Possas, systems ecologist Charles Puccia, public-health entomologist Andrew Spielman and clinical infectious-disease specialist Mary E. Wilson. They have recently compiled Disease in Evolution, a book of conference proceedings to be published in 1994 by the New York Academy of Sciences. After this article was completed, Uwe Brinkmann died suddenly in June 1993 while on a site visit in Brazil. Address for Levins: Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115.