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Infectious Diseases

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Rural Americans may experience a variety of infections that are rare or unusual in urban or suburban dwellers. Rural dwellers are more likely to have occupations (e.g., agriculture) or avocations (e.g., hunting, trapping) that expose them to microbes carried by animals and insects (Donham & Mutel, 1982). They are more likely to be exposed to untreated or contaminated water due to poverty or underdeveloped water and sanitation systems. Most physicians and other health care professionals train in urban or suburban setting, and may have little or no experience with infectious diseases occurring in rural dwellers. Both classic infectious diseases rarely seen in the modern era (e.g., plague, anthrax) and new and emerging diseases (e.g., Hantavirus sp.) are most often encountered in rural settings.

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    Keith B. Armitage

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Armitage, K.B., Sinclair, G.I. (2001). Infectious Diseases. In: Loue, S., Quill, B.E. (eds) Handbook of Rural Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3310-5_10

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