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An edition of The coming plague (1994)

The coming plague

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English
Pages
750

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Table of Contents

Preface / Jonathan M. Mann
Introduction
Machupo : Bolivian hemorrhagic 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

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Includes index.

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Genre
Popular works
Copyright Date
1994

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Jonathan M. Mann

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xiii, 750 p.
Number of pages
750

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OL23262037M
Internet Archive
comingplaguenew000garr
ISBN 10
0374126461
LCCN
94026285
Library Thing
19036
Goodreads
906824

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