Topic summary
Emerging infectious diseases
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Emerging infectious disease.
History of the concept of emerging infectious diseases
The French doctor Charles Anglada (1809–1878) wrote a book in 1869 on extinct and new diseases. He did not distinguish infectious diseases from others (he uses the terms reactive and affective diseases, to mean diseases with an external or internal cause, more or less meaning diseases with or without an observable external cause). He writes in the introduction: