The Carrier Problem in Infectious Diseases (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

John Charles Grant Ledingham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331161843 ISBN 13: 9781331161844

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Healthy carriers and public health: how quiet infections shape epidemics and policy. This nonfiction work examines the carrier concept across major diseases and explains why understanding carriers matters for prevention, surveillance, and control.

In The Carrier Problem in Infectious Diseases, readers learn how carriers can sustain outbreaks and influence messaging, vaccination, and intervention strategies. It blends bacteriological findings with epidemiological perspectives to show why carriers matter beyond the person who is visibly ill.

• Discover how chronic and transient carriers differ in their role in transmission.


• See how public health authorities identify and manage carriers while balancing individual rights.


• Learn about laboratory methods used to detect carrier states and assess infectivity.


• Get historical context on early debates and how these ideas shaped policy.

Ideal for readers of epidemiology, public health, and medical history who want a clear view of how unseen carriers affect disease spread.

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Product Description

Excerpt from The Carrier Problem in Infectious Diseases The Editors hope to issue in this series of International Medical Monographs contributions to the domain of the Medical Sciences on subjects of immediate interest, made by first-hand authorities who have been engaged in extending the confines of knowledge. Readers who seek to follow the rapid progress made in some new phase of investigation will find herein accurate information acquired from the consultation of the leading authorities of Europe and America, and illuminated by the researches and considered opinions of the authors. Amidst the press and rush of modern research, and the multitude of papers published in many tongues, it is necessary to find men of proved merit and ripe experience, who will winnow the wheat from the chaff, and give us the present knowledge of their own subjects in a duly balanced, concise, and accurate form. Drs. Ledingham and Arkwright in this volume deal with a subject of the greatest importance to public health. They have made an elaborate study of the doctrine that diseases, like typhoid fever, cerebrospinal fever, diphtheria, cholera, and dysentery, are propagated through the agency of human "carriers" - i.e., individuals outwardly healthy, or at most suffering from some trivial chronic complaint. The discovery of "carriers" has opened out a new department of hygiene, and the question of legislative control of such has become a matter of immediate practical importance. Up to date no such exhaustive treatise on the "carrier" problem as that of Drs. Ledingham and Arkwright has been published. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331161843
• ISBN 13: 9781331161844
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 331