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The coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance / Laurie Garrett.

by Garrett, Laurie.

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Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020, c1994.

Communicable diseases.

9781250796127 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance

xvii, 750 p. : maps ; 23 cm.

"Published in 1994 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux" -- verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"After decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease 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. Relying 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, Laurie Garerett's 'The coming plaque' takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of the northern Democratic Republic of Congo on a harrowing fifty-year journey through the history of our battles with microbes. (...)"--Back cover.

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