New and resurgent infections: prediction detection and management of tomorrows epidemics.

These are the proceedings of the Seventh Annual Public Health Forum of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The focus is on new and resurgent infections. The 17 papers provide a review of "the role of local global environmental and sociological factors in the emergence of new infections; variability in pathogens and the way this leads to resurgence of infections; surveillance; the public health response; and examples of new and resurgent diseases such as malaria ebola CJD/BSE and E. coli." (EXCERPT)