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100 1 $aGarrett, Laurie.
245 14 $aThe coming plague :$bnewly emerging diseases in a world out of balance /$cLaurie Garrett.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin,$cc1994.
300 $axvii, 750 p. :$bmaps ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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.
505 0 $aMicrobe 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.
505 0 $aNature and homo sapiens: seal plague, cholera, global warming, biodiversity, and the microbial soup -- Searching for solutions: preparedness, surveillance, and the new understanding -- Afterword.
650 0 $aEpidemiology$vPopular works.
650 0 $aCommunicable diseases$vPopular works.
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