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Main Title Coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance /
Author Garrett, Laurie.
Publisher Penguin,
Year Published 1995
OCLC Number 33201617
ISBN 0140250913 (pbk.)
Subjects Epidemiology--Popular works ; Communicable diseases--Popular works
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ESAM  RA651.G37 1995 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 12/31/1998
Collation xvii, 750 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes
Introduction -- 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. 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.