Clear-Cutting Disease Control
Wallace, Rodrick / Chaves, Luis Fernando / Bergmann, Luke R. / Ayres, Constância / Hogerwerf, Lenny / Kock, Richard / Wallace, Robert G.
The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity.By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne outbreaks.Ecosystems in which such pathogens are largely controlled by environmental stochasticity are being drastically streamlined by both agribus...