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A key event in the development of modem epidemiology was the discovery by the English physician, John Snow, that cholera is transmitted by contaminated water. During the cholera epidemic in London in 1854, Snow mapped the locations of cholera deaths, observed a cluster of victims in a particular neighbourhood and found that most of these cases had drunk water from a communal water pump. The handle of the pump was removed at Snow's insistence, and the epidemic ended within a few days. Since these early days, the science of epidemiology has grown into a major discipline, with many successes to its credit. Many of the diseases which wreaked havoc in the last century have been brought under control, and in the case of smallpox, eliminated, through improvements in hygiene and the use of preventive and control measures such as mass vaccination. Nevertheless, in recent years, new problems have emerged, and old diseases have re-emerged. Many foodborne and waterborne disease outbreaks go unrecognized or are detected too late for effective control measures to be implemented. New infections, such as HIV, present new threats. Antimicrobial drug resistance, particularly the increase in drug resistant TB, also poses new challenges.

http://www.med.uni-rostock.de/HTML/Forschung/GEOMED/Buch.html>This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the first http://www.med.uni-rostock.de/HTML/Forschung/GEOMED/GEOMED97.html>Workshop on Geomedical Systems, GEOMED '97 , held in Rostock, Germany, in September 1997. Geomedical systems are information systems used to monitor the health situation in geographically-distributed populations. They are used both to detect and to forecast health risks. In recent years, many national and international (EU) projects on such systems have been established. These have involved geographers, epidemiologists, statisticians and computer scientists. System design has attempted to meet to needs of potential users. The papers in GEOMED '97 present new directions in the field of geomedical systems and explore the interface with related topics such as epidemiological modelling. The papers will be of central concern to all scientists whose work aims to reduce the impact of disease on the human population.