Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume 18, Number 7—July 2012
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm

Book Reviews
Infectious Disease: A Geographic Guide and Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases
– Eskild Petersen, Lin H. Chen, and Patricia Schlangenhauf, editors
Infectious Disease: A Geographic Guide, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-470-65529-0
Pages: 480; Price: US $84.95
– Heiman F.L. Wertheim, Peter Horby, and John P. Woodall, editors
Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8440-3
Pages: 306; Price: US $130.00
Infectious Disease: A Geographic Guide and Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases, 2 books recently published by Wiley-Blackwell, deliver to the global medicine bookshelf diagnostic adjuncts for expatriate clinicians and those who see immigrants or returning travelers, while also serving as pretravel references on regional disease risk and authoritative sources for anyone needing infectious diseases information. Mary Wilson, who contributed to the first book and wrote the foreword for the second, filled a similar need in 1991 with A World Guide to Infections. Now these new books remind us that even in the age of near–real-time, electronic references, a printed volume to hold in one’s hands can be an unmatched resource.