Control of Communicable Diseases

Communicable Diseases and Outbreak Control

Infectious disease during an emergency condition can raise the death rate 60 times in comparison to other causes including trauma. An epidemic, or outbreak, can occur when several aspects of the agent (pathogen), population (hosts), and the environment create an ideal situation for spread. Overcrowding, poor regional design and hygiene due to poverty, dirty drinking water, rapid climate changes...

The Control of Communicable Diseases (Harvey & Blythe)

[Prevention and control of communicable diseases].

How much control of communicable diseases?

The American Society of Tropical Medicine was established in Philadelphia, March 9, 1903 by a small group of well known clinicians who were members of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Of the 28 who signed the Charter, nine were members of the Jefferson Medical College Faculty. At the first public meeting, James Carroll, +Surgeon, U. S. Army, addressed the Society on the subject “The...

Communicable Diseases