About this title: After four decades of assuming that the conquest of infectious diseases was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged. The water we drink is improperly purified, the air we breathe potentially deadly, and the food we eat possibly poisonous. What went wrong? This book follows the doctors and scientists in their 50 year battle with the microbes, ranging from the savannas of Bolivia to the rain forests of Zaire. Jet travel, the sexual revolution and over-population - all favour the survival of new and old bugs, among them, malaria, Ebola, cholera and tuberculosis, and ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"This enormous book will scare you silly! It details the history of modern diseases that might threaten our civilization (no joke!), including ebola, AIDS, antibiotic resistant TB, etc. Excellent narratives that read like fiction tell the reader how each disease has already affected populations and policies and predicts future problems. (That's the scary part.)"
"Read Laurie Garrett's analyses of policy--and yes, non-policy-- around disease detection and control. Written in the early 1990's the reality that protection from disease is all of our responsibility is still echoing--we are everyone's neighbor."
"I read this book when it first came out and I was working in a biological chemical factory. This really hit home to me. We were in a way already dealing with some of the issues mentioned in the book. My job title at the time (my tongue-in-cheek title) was mad cow queen. I did research to verify the animal products we used and manufactured were bse-free.
You have to wonder what people who don't want universal health care are thinking. With so many people out of work and losing their health insurance, do we really want them getting sick and passing the pandemic on to the rest of us."
"Great book on diseases. Each chapter is organized around a specific desease or historic outbreak, so linear reading isnt required. It's a great book on bacti and the viruses and especially the vectors that introduce them to human populations. Its definitely an eye-opener."
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