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Infectious Disease: The Human Costs of Our Environmental Errors Abstract
Public health officials around the world are looking on in dismay as infectious diseases, some of which had recently been thought to be under control, begin to make themselves felt in old and newly emerging forms in both developing and developed countries. Environmental factors such as land use changes, extensive poverty, population growth, war, microbial resistance, global warming, increased human travel, and the growing exotic animal trade---combined with complacency stemming from the gains made earlier against infectious diseases---are thwarting even the best efforts to keep these killers in check. Bob Weinhold
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