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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsThe Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balanceby Laurie Garrett
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases—HIV, Lassa, Ebola, and others. Laurie Garrett takes you on a fifty-year journey through the world's battles with microbes and examines the worldwide conditions that have culminated in recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered diseases, epidemics of diseases migrating to new areas, and mutated old diseases that are no longer curable. She argues that it is not too late to take action to prevent the further onslaught of viruses and microbes, and offers possible solutions for a healthier future.
Synopsis:In this gripping, often harrowing study, Laurie Garrett takes readers on a 50-year journey through the world's battles with microbes, and examines the conditions that have culminated in recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered diseases, epidemics of diseases migrating to new areas, and mutated old diseases that are no longer curable. A New York Times Notable Book in 1994.
Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Machupo: Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever 2. Health Transition: The Age of Optimism—Setting Out to Eradicate Disease 3. Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides: Marburg Virus, Yellow Fever, and the Brazilian Meningitis Epidemic 4. Into the Woods: Lassa Fever 5. Yambuku: Ebola 6. The American Bicentennial: Swine Flu and Legionnaires' Disease 7. N'zara: Lassa, Ebola, and the Developing World's Economic and Social Policies 8. Revolution: Genetic Engineering and the Discovery of Oncogenes 9. Microbe Magnets: Urban Centers of Disease 10. Distant Thunder: Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Injecting Drug Users 11. Hatari: Vinidogodogo (Danger: A Very Little Thing): The Origins of AIDS 12. Feminine Hygiene (As Debated, Mostly, by Men): Toxic Shock Syndrome 13. The Revenge of the Germs, or Just Keep Inventing New Drugs: Drug-resistant Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites 14. Thirdworldization: The Interactions of Poverty, Poor Housing, and Social Despair with Disease 15. All in Good Haste: Hantaviruses in America 16. Nature and Homo sapiens: Seal Plague, Cholera, Global Warming, Biodiversity, and the Microbial Soup 17. Searching for Solutions: Preparedness, Surveillance, and the New Understanding Afterword Notes Acknowledgments Index
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