The textbook approach to managing disease outbreaks focuses on three factors -- pathogen, host, and environment -- but it leaves out one critical component in the case of afflictions such as Zika, ...

The infectious process consists of an epidemiologic triad of agent, host, and environment. Clinicians should always be mindful that the interaction among these three variables is never static. A scant ...

Annapolis, MD; July 31, 2018--The textbook approach to managing disease outbreaks focuses on three factors--pathogen, host, and environment--but it leaves out one critical component in the case of ...