The coming plague
Subtitle: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance
By: Laurie Garrett.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 750
Subjects: Epidemiology -- Popular works; Communicable diseases -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Machupo: Bolivian hemorragic 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.