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Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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TY - GEN
T1 - Five little-known diseases to watch out for in 2017
AU - Gatherer, Derek
PY - 2017/1/3
Y1 - 2017/1/3
N2 - The phrase “emerging disease”, to describe an infectious disease that is new to humans or which is suddenly increasing its geographical range or number of cases, dates back to the 1960s. But it was the realisation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that the world was in the throes of previously unrecognised pandemics of genital herpes and AIDS, that really propelled the term into the mainstream.
AB - The phrase “emerging disease”, to describe an infectious disease that is new to humans or which is suddenly increasing its geographical range or number of cases, dates back to the 1960s. But it was the realisation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that the world was in the throes of previously unrecognised pandemics of genital herpes and AIDS, that really propelled the term into the mainstream.
KW - infectious disease
M3 - Article
JO - The Conversation
JF - The Conversation
ER -