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- W4229718843 abstract "This book is about the geography of emerging infectious diseases. The notion of emerging diseases goes back at least 150 years. Writing in 1861, two years after Charles Darwin had published his revolutionary On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, the great mid-Victorian statistician at the General Register Office of England and Wales, William Farr, turned evolution onto diseases to capture the idea of emergence: The types of diseases have probably undergone as many changes as the human species, which according to the great hypothesis of Darwin, is itself the crowning offshoot of simpler forms . . . Yet new species are generated by the same law; they are at first varieties confounded with old types, and are only recognized as distinct species when they have existed for some time, so it is impossible to fix on the precise point of origin. Diphtheria is an example. (Farr 1861: 183) Farr developed these remarks a decade later: The zymotic [infectious] diseases replace each other; and when one is rooted out it is apt to be replaced by others which ravage the human race indifferently whenever the conditions of healthy life are wanting. They have this property in common with weeds and other forms of life; as one species recedes, another advances. (Farr 1874: 224) The idea of disease emergence flitted in and out of the scientific literature over the next century, so that Daniel Thomson writing in 1955 felt it necessary to remake the case: it is clear that the epidemiological pattern of this country [England and Wales] has been in a constant state of flux, and it seems likely that the prevailing infections have not always been with us, nor have they existed in their present form for so very long. The responsible pathogens have undergone evolutionary changes, and some, of little present significance, may yet enter phases of great virulence, or deadly varieties may arise from the vastly greater number of viruses and bacteria which have not yet displayed pathogenic properties . . . (Thomson 1955: 116)" @default.
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- W4229718843 title "Introduction" @default.
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