The Coming Plague
Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Microbiology
| Author: | Laurie Garrett | ISBN: | 9781429953276 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Publication: | October 31, 1994 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Language: | English |
| Author: | Laurie Garrett |
| ISBN: | 9781429953276 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication: | October 31, 1994 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Language: | English |
"Here is a volume that should be required reading for policy makers and health professionals." - Kirkus Reviews
After four decades of assuming that the conquest of all infectous diseases was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours.
Based on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology and medicine, as well as field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, Central America and the United States, The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of northern Zaire on a harrowing, fifty year journey through our battles with the microbes, and tells us what must be done to prevent the coming plague.
"Here is a volume that should be required reading for policy makers and health professionals." - Kirkus Reviews
After four decades of assuming that the conquest of all infectous diseases was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours.
Based on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology and medicine, as well as field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, Central America and the United States, The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of northern Zaire on a harrowing, fifty year journey through our battles with the microbes, and tells us what must be done to prevent the coming plague.
