Issues covered include: The scale of the problem with particular reference to the Sakai outbreak of E.

Drawing on the economics of international trade and epidemiology, the author explores the critical health issues arising from the enormous increase in global trade and travel. Coli.Risky Trade: Infectious Disease in the Era of Global Trade provides a thorough examination of the actual risks posed by disease in the age of globalization. Public fears have been further heightened by frightening news reports of deadly diseases such as Mad Cow disease and E. This has created new vulnerabilities for global populations to the introduction and amplification of infection through trade. Indeed, most health systems lag far behind, especially in poor countries.

Yet, investment in public health infrastructure and disease control was never designed to cope with international trade of this volume and diversity. Such prolific global trading has, at the same time, begun to raise fears of pandemics and concerns for global health.

The current value of global trade has reached a staggering annual figure of $6 trillion in merchandise crossing borders.

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