In search of sick parrots: Karl Friedrich Meyer, disease detective

For just as in the 21st century concerns about food insecurity, climate change, and the incursion of humans into natural habitats have led to the recognition of new emerging infectious diseases, so in the 1930s California's rapid population growth and the incursion of settlers into valleys and...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Lancet (British edition) 2014-05, Vol.383 (9932), p.1880-1881
1. Verfasser:	Honigsbaum, Mark
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal diseases Animals Antibiotics Bacteriology Bacteriology - history Bird Diseases - history Birds Climate change Ecology Food security History, 20th Century Humans Infections Infectious diseases Internal Medicine Karl Friedrich Meyer Medical research Meyer Mortality Parasites Parrots Population growth Psittacosis - history Psittacosis - veterinary Public health San Francisco Settlers Studies Veterinary Medicine - history
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Zusammenfassung:	For just as in the 21st century concerns about food insecurity, climate change, and the incursion of humans into natural habitats have led to the recognition of new emerging infectious diseases, so in the 1930s California's rapid population growth and the incursion of settlers into valleys and deserts teeming with arthropod-bearing parasites and exotic fungi presented public health workers with new and unexpected disease challenges.
ISSN:	0140-6736 1474-547X
DOI:	10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60905-3