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Textbook on SARS
- SARS Reference is a medical e- textbook that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of severe acute repiratory syndrome. It also contain excellent overview information about SARS.
  • Diamond J, Guns, Germs and Steel, London: Vintage, 1997
 - Chapter 11,Lethal gift of livestock, p.195-214, given a detailed account of the animal origin of Human diseases,  is, and why some microbes make us sick but the other does not. It also gives a historic view on infectious disease.
  • Hurst CJ, Viral Ecology Academic Press, USA, 2001
 - Chapter 1 Defining the Ecology of Viruses has a good introduction of Ecology of Viruses, which explains the basic principle of how viral and infectious diseases (like SARS) arise.
  • McMichael, Anthony J.: Human frontiers, environments and disease :  past patterns, uncertain futures, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001
  • Medical microbiology / Cedric Mims ... [et al.]. Edinburgh : Mosby, 2004