Epidemics and epidemiology: back to the future
The word “epidemiology” was written for the first time in a report on the plague in Alghero in 1583. Although its etymology has it intricacy. For centuries it has been concerned with understanding and trying to control and prevent epidemics. During the cholera epidemic in London in 1848 the London S...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Gaceta Sanitaria |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S021391112200173X |