The coming plague
Subtitle: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance
By: Laurie Garrett
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 750
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Epidemiology -- Popular works; Communicable diseases -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Jonathan M. Mann; title: Introduction; title: Machupo : Bolivian hemorrhagic fever; title: Health transition : the age of optimism : setting out to eradicate disease; title: Monkey kidneys and the ebbing tides : Marburg virus, yellow fever, and the Brazilian meningitis epidemic; title: Into the woods : lassa fever; title: Yambuku : Ebola; title: The American bicentennial : swine flu and Legionnaires' disease; title: N'zara : lassa, ebola, and the developing world's economic and social policies; title: Revolution : genetic engineering and the discovery of oncogenes; title: Microbe magnets : urban centers of disease; title: Distant thunder : sexually transmitted diseases and injecting drug users; title: Hatari : vinidogodogo (danger : a very little thing) : the origins of AIDS; title: Feminine hygiene (as debated, mostly, by men) : toxic shock syndrome; title: The revenge of the germs, or just keep inventing new drugs : drug-resistant bacteria, viruses, and parasites; title: Thirdworldization : the interactions of poverty, poor housing, and social despair with disease; title: All in good haste : hantaviruses in America; title: Nature and homo sapiens : seal plague, cholera, global warming, biodiversity, and the microbial soup; title: Searching for solutions : preparedness, surveillance, and the new understanding; title: Afterword