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371–72

iatrogenic infections, 415

Iban people, 154, 157

ibuprofen, 362

ICDDR,B (International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh), 328, 330, 375, 379–81

immortalized cell lineages, 184

immunodeficiency, 385, 387

“Increased Mortality and AIDS-like Immunopathology in Wild Chimpanzees Infected with SIVcpz” (Keele et al.), 476–77

incubation periods, 264–65

index cases, 25

India, 276

AIDS in, 483

A. leucosphyrus in, 163

malaria in, 147

polio in, 22

Indian Medical Service (IMS), 127–28

Indonesia, 152, 163, 276, 277

infectious disease:

applied mathematics in research on, 129–35, 141–48

artificiality of distinction between zoonotic and nonzoonotic, 137

basic reproduction rate in, see R0

Burnet on, 234–37

critical community size in, 129–30, 349

dead-end hosts and, 83, 164, 294, 343, 373, 480

ecological disturbance and, 23, 40, 41

as ecosystems, 247, 251

emergent and re-emergent, 42–45

eradication of, 517–18

future of, 42, 45

germ theory of, 130, 265, 517

immunity to, 129–30

and population size of hosts, 303–6

recovery rate in, 305

superspreaders of, 172–73, 176–77, 206, 519

thresholds of, 36, 144, 480

traditional wisdom and, 88–89

infectious disease (continued)

ubiquity of, 20

see also epidemics; pandemics; specific diseases and pathogens

Infectious Diseases of Humans (Anderson and May), 303

Infectious Diseases Society of America (ISDA), 238–39, 259

antitrust investigation of, 239

infectivity, 130, 143–44, 146, 372

loss of, 133–34

pre- vs. postsymptomatic, 207–8

influenza viruses, 237, 499, 512

in birds, 313, 314, 505–6, 507–10

characteristics of, 504, 507

genomes of, 268, 307, 504

mutation rate of, 506

in pigs, 21, 39, 374, 507

reassortment in, 506–8

reservoir hosts of, 313, 505

transmissibility of, 291

as viruses, 24, 270

as zoonoses, 14, 21, 42, 164, 505

see also specific strains

Institut Pasteur, 390

interferon, 108

intermediate roundleaf bat (Hipposideros larvatus), 201

International Commission, 69–70

International Primatological Society, 286

intravenous drug users:

AIDS in, 390, 391

hepatitis B in, 388

intrinsic evolvability, 512–13

intubation, 173–74

Ipoh, Malaysia, 314, 315, 317

Islam, Arif, 334, 335, 339–42

isolation, of viruses, 25, 38

Ivanofsky, Dmitri, 265–66

Ivindo River, 53, 54, 55, 87, 88, 111, 117

Ixodes scapularis, see deer (blacklegged) tick

Jaax, Nancy, 101

Jamot, Eugène, 479, 480

Jane Goodall Institute, 468, 472–73

Japanese encephalitis (JE), 314–16, 317, 318

Johannesburg, South Africa, 62

Johnson, Karl, 37, 69–70, 74, 346

on pathology of Ebola, 93–96

in search for Ebola reservoir, 70–72, 77

Jolo (boatman), 449, 450

Jones, Kate E., 44

Jones-Engel, Lisa, 277–81, 283–89

Joosten, Astrid, 357–59, 360, 362–63, 364

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 72, 75

Journal of Virology, 194, 464

Junin, 24, 270, 307

Justin, Ekeme, 440

juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, 241

Kabila, Laurent, 418

Kabongo, Jean-Marie M., 410–12, 421

Kadéï River, 434

Kakao people, 435–36

Kanki, Phyllis, 394–98, 416

Kapit, Malaysia, 154

P. knowlesi infections in, 156–59

Kaposi’s sarcoma, 386–87, 389

Karesh, William B. “Billy,” 64–68, 89, 91, 122, 466

Kasai River, 118

Keele, Brandon F., 424–27, 428, 437, 472–73, 475, 476

Kemp, Alan, 352, 354, 364

Kenya, 399

Kermack, William Ogilvy, 141–44, 146, 236, 303, 367, 518

Khan, Rasheda, 378–79

Khulna, Bangladesh, 335, 336, 339

Kibale National Park, Uganda, 467

Kika, Cameroon, 440, 449

Kikwit, DRC, 72–75, 80, 91–92, 93, 113, 117

Kinshasa (Léopoldville), DRC, 389

emergence of AIDS pandemic in, 428–29, 430–31, 462, 463, 477–78, 481–84

Kinshasa, University of, 410, 417

Kisangani, DRC, 414, 418, 483

Kitaka Cave, 85, 351–55, 358

mark-recapture tagging of bats at, 355, 365

Knowles, Robert, 149–50

Koch, Robert, 131–32, 234, 263, 265, 517

Koprowski, Hilary, 21, 414–15, 417, 418

Korber, Bette, 409

Korea, 24

Kota language, 90

Kowloon, China, 170, 193

Krief, Sabrina, 139–40

Ksiazek, Tom, 364–65

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 276

Kuching, Malaysia, 153–54, 156–57

Kyasanur Forest virus, 21, 313

Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, 391

Lacks, Henrietta, 184

La Crosse virus, 346

LAGA (Last Great Ape Organization), 432

Lam, Sai Kit “Ken,” 315–16, 317, 318, 319

Lancet, 160

Laos, 163

larch budmoths, 496

Lassa virus, 21, 39, 40, 67, 270, 307, 313, 358

LAV (lymphadenopathy virus), 392–93

see also HIV

Laver, William Graeme, 505–6

Laveran, Alphonse, 128

Leakey, Louis, 470

least horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus pusillus), 201, 202, 206

Leeuwenhoek, Anton van, 263

Legionaire’s disease, 43–44

Legionella pneumophila, 43–44

Lentivirus, 297, 308

Léopoldville, see Kinshasa, DRC

Lepidoptera, outbreaks in, 495–96, 498

crashes in, 498–503

leprosy, 400–401, 478

Leroy, Eric M., 54, 114–17, 118, 120–22, 370–73, 403

Lesotho, 483

Levy, Jay A., 393

Li, Wendong, 194–95, 202

Libreville, Gabon, 62, 119

Lipkin, Ian, 514–15

Lipu, China, 203–5

Lister, Joseph, 131–32, 265

Litchfield National Park, Australia, 366

Little Mulgrave, Australia, 46, 48

Liu, Weimin, 140–41

Liu Jianlun, 174–75, 206

Lloyd-Smith, J. O., 172

Lobeke, Cameroon, 426

Lobeke National Park, Cameroon, 435, 438

Loeffler, Friedrich, 266

logging, 67, 433–35, 439

London, 1858 cholera outbreak in, 131

Lonsdorf, Elizabeth, 474–75

Los Angeles, Calif., early AIDS cases in, 385–86, 388, 389, 489

Lossi Gorilla Sanctuary, 63, 64, 65, 91, 120, 124

Lubumbashi, DRC, 483

Luby, Stephen, 328–33, 375

Luebo, DRC, 370–73

Lumumba, Patrice, 484

Luzon, Philippines, SARS in, 167

Lymantria dispar (gypsy moths), 496, 499, 500–501, 520–21

Lyme, Conn., 212, 241

Lyme disease, 21, 23, 238–59, 511

biogeography of, 256–59

biological diversity and risk of, 255–56

“chronic,” 238–39, 259

and deer population levels, 246–47

deer ticks as vector for, 212–13, 241–42, 255

as ecosystem, 247, 251, 253–54

prehistory of, 239–42

as vector-borne disease, 238

Lyme disease (continued)

and white-footed mouse population levels, 252, 253–54

Lyme Disease: The Ecology of a Complex System

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