Contents
Editor’s Foreword
Preface
1 - Introduction
2.1 - Introduction
2.2 - Bacteria
2.3 - Viruses
2.5 - Fungi and worms
2.6 - Prions
3.1 - Introduction
3.2 - Making it difficult to penetrate the lines
3.3 - Behind the barriers
3.4 - Help for the defense: vaccines
3.5 - Misdirected immunity: allergy and autoimmune diseases
4.1 - Mankind
4.2 - Microbes: ancient jacks of all trades
4.3 - Cooperation, coexistence, conflict
4.4 - Pandemic, epidemic, or what, precisely? The technical jargon used by epidemiologists
4.5 - Undesirable alliances: how pathogens play a role in cancer and other diseases
5 - More Than a Body Count: The Major Infectious Diseases
5.1 - From colds to pneumonia: respiratory infections are number one
5.2 - Diarrheal diseases and food poisoning
5.3 - Children’s diseases: far more than just a difficult start
5.4 - HIV/AIDS
5.5 - Tuberculosis: the white plague
5.6 - AIDS and tuberculosis: two diseases, one patient
5.7 - Malaria
5.8 - Influenza in humans and birds
5.9 - SARS: half way around the world in twelve hours
5.10 - Life in the shadowlands: the neglected tropical diseases
6.1 - Antibiotics
6.2 - When hospitals cause sickness: nosocomial infections and antibiotic resistance
6.3 - Five kilograms of penicillin, please: antibiotics in animal breeding
7.1 - Introduction
7.2 - Vaccines for the masses
7.3 - Immunization risks: myths and truths
7.4 - Me and the rest of the world
8.1 - Introduction
8.2 - Money, health, education
8.4 - Economic strategists
8.5 - TRIPS: patent rights versus treatment rights
8.6 - Flagships of healthcare improvement
8.7 - Ambitious goals
8.8 - Theoretically no problem
8.9 - Update I: déjà vu?
8.10 - Update II: mid-point review
8.11 - Policymakers
8.12 - Finger in the wound
8.14 - Public-private partnerships (PPPs)
8.15 - Foundations
9 - Swimming Against the Tide
9.1 - The quest for blockbusters
9.2 - Economic viability
9.3 - No one needs flops
9.4 - Talking doesn’t help
9.5 - New incentives
9.6 - Pooling expertise
9.7 - A global fund as a clarion call
9.8 - Push or pull to success
9.9 - Research incubators
9.10 - In the trenches
10.1 - Introduction
10.2 - Hot spot number 1: poor and sick, sick and poor
10.3 - Hot spot number 2: catastrophes, conflicts and the threat of epidemics
10.4 - Hot spot number 3: from the world’s laboratories
10.5 - Hot spot number 4: breeding grounds for vectors
10.6 - Hot spot number 5: face to face with the wilderness
10.7 - Hot spot number 6: mankind and all creatures great and small
10.8 - The next pandemic
10.9 - Global threats call for global responses
11.1 - Controversial but convincing
11.2 - Expensive but still affordable
11.3 - Everyman’s right, everyman’s duty
11.4 - Act globally
11.5 - It can work
11.6 - Sunny with cloudy spells
11.7 - Outlook
Glossary
References