The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

✍ Scribed by Laurie Garrett

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1429953276

✦ Synopsis

"Here is a volume that should be required reading for policy makers and health professionals." - Kirkus Reviews

After four decades of assuming that the conquest of all infectous diseases was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours.

Based on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology and medicine, as well as field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, Central America and the United States, The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of northern Zaire on a harrowing, fifty year journey through our battles with the microbes, and tells us what must be done to prevent the coming plague.