Emerging Pandemics: Connections with Environment and Climate Change [Hardcover]

Chapter 1 Occurrence and Environmental Dimensions of Specific Pandemics and Epidemics

Chapter 2 Climate Change: Emerging Driver of Infectious Diseases

Chapter 3 Economic Outcomes of Emerging Pandemics and its Implications on the Environment

Chapter 4 Tuberculosis: An old enemy of mankind and way to next pandemic

Chapter 5 Pandemics, Environment, and Globalisation: Understanding the Interlinkage in the Context of COVID-19

Chapter 6 Climate Change and Zoonotic Diseases: Malaria, Plague, Dengue, Encephalitis

Chapter 7 Environmental dimensions of Zika Virus triggered outbreak and its association with neurological complications like Guillain-Barr?syndrome and microcephaly

Chapter 8 Emerging contaminants in the environment and their linkage with COVID-19

Chapter 9 Lassa fever in Nigeria: case fatality ratio, social consequences and prevention

Chapter 10 Contribution of anthropogenic factors in the global advancement of Zika virus

The book seeks to explore the documented history of pandemics and various epidemics which have the potential of turning into pandemics with the warming climate, pollution, and environmental destruction

Pandemics are often associated with viruses and bacteria occurring in wildlife in natural environments. Thus, diseases of epidemic and pandemic scale are mostly zoonotic, some of which include AIDS, Zika virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and COVID-19. The book seeks to explore the documented history of pandemics and various epidemics that have the potential of turning into pandemics with the warming climate, pollution, and environmental destruction.

The book covers some of the most essential elements of the diseases of pandemic nature and their relationship with the environment:

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