TY - CHAP AU - Adekunle Sanyaolu AU - Chuku Okorie AU - Aleksandra Marinkovic AU - Kareem Hamdy AU - Stephanie Prakash AU - Risha Patidar AU - Abu Fahad Abbasi AU - Priyank Desai AU - Abdul Jan AU - Jasmine Mangat ED - David Claborn Y1 - 2021-02-11 PY - 2021 T1 - A Narrative Review of the Measles Outbreak in North America and Globally N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded the world that infectious diseases are still important. The last 40 years have experienced the emergence of new or resurging viral diseases such as AIDS, ebola, MERS, SARS, Zika, and others. These diseases display diverse epidemiologies ranging from sexual transmission to vector-borne transmission (or both, in the case of Zika). This book provides an overview of recent developments in the detection, monitoring, treatment, and control of several viral diseases that have caused recent epidemics or pandemics. BT - Current Perspectives on Viral Disease Outbreaks SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.95921 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.95921 SN - 978-1-83881-911-8 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-27 ER -