Volume 13, Number 4—April 2007 Books and Media Global Mapping of
Infectious Diseases: Methods, Examples, and Emerging
Applications Academic Press, London, United Kingdom, 2007
ISBN-10: 012-031762-1, ISBN-13: 978-0120317622 Pages: 399 + 34
plate pages and DVD; Price: US $169.95 In 1849, John Snow
pioneered the application of mapping to public health by
producing a map depicting locations of cholera cases around the
Broad Street pump in London (1). Thus, any book describing
recent advances in mapping infectious disease is potentially of
interest to practicing public health officials. The topics
covered in the 11 chapters in this book range from the very
technical, such as descriptions of satellite-obtained
environmental data, to the geographic and climatic distribution
of dengue and yellow fever, plotted in risk maps for those
diseases. However, most public health officials will likely find
this book overly specialized, particularly the first 4 chapters.
These contain detailed descriptions of the technical aspe