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Article: Infectious disease: the human costs of our environmental errors.(Focus)(Cover Story)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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For a few exhilarating decades in the middle of the twentieth century, it seemed the world might have a reprieve from some major infectious diseases. After coordinated worldwide efforts had virtually eliminated smallpox and made major inroads against other infectious diseases such as influenza, tuberculosis, and polio, some public health officials thought we had entered a new era in which infectious diseases would no longer be among the planet's worst killers. By the 1980s, though, those hopes were dashed, due in large part to the burgeoning AIDS epidemic.
Beginning around the same time, dozens of other infectious diseases--including Lyme disease, hantavirus ...
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