An edition of The coming plague (1994)

The coming plague

newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance

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An edition of The coming plague (1994)

The coming plague

newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance

  • 5.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 83 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

This is an amazing book that Laura Garrett wrote back in the 90's. For anyone that has read the more popular book by Richard Preston "The Hot Zone" this is a must read. It is a much tighter more informative book. She takes us through the history of viruses in a journalistic/story approach. She breaks down the emergence of Ebola and the other emerging viruses and what it could mean in a brilliantly entertaining way. Each new disease/chapter starts with a journalistic story and ends with an educated informative narrative. With the Ebola outbreak going on now in Western Africa I had to come and revisit this classic. She warned us and nailed it.

Unpurified drinking water, improper use of antibiotics, local warfare, massive refugee migration have contributed to changing social and environmental conditions around the world. These have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases : HIV, Lassa, Ebola, and others. The author takes the reader 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.

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Penguin
Pages
750

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The coming plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance
1994, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover in English
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The coming plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance
1994, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Machupo: Bolivian hemorragic fever
Health transition: the age of optimism, setting out to eradicate disease
Monkey kidneys and the ebbing tides: Marburg virus, yellow fever, and the Brazilian meningitis epidemic
Into the woods: lassa fever
Yambuku: Ebola
The American bicentennial: swine flu and Legionnaires' Disease
N'zara: lassa, ebola, and the developing world's economic and social policies
Revolution: genetic engineering and the discovery of oncogenes.
Microbe Magnets: urban centers of disease
Distant thunder: sexually transmitted diseases and injecting drug users
Hatari: vinidogodogo (danger: a very little thing): the origins of AIDS
Feminine hygiene (as debated, mostly, by men): toxic shock syndrome
The revenge of the germs, or just keep inventing new drugs: drug-resistant bacteria, viruses, and parasites
Thirdworldization: the interactions of poverty, poor housing, and social despair with disease
All in good haste: hantaviruses in America.
Nature and homo sapiens: seal plague, cholera, global warming, biodiversity, and the microbial soup
Searching for solutions: preparedness, surveillance, and the new understanding
Afterword.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York
Genre
Popular works.

Classifications

Library of Congress
RA651, RA651 .G37 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 750 p. :
Number of pages
750

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18728834M
Internet Archive
comingplaguenewl00garr
ISBN 10
0140250913
LCCN
94026285
OCLC/WorldCat
505073162
Library Thing
19036
Goodreads
46722

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