The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140250913
- ISBN 13
- 9780140250916
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About This Item
New York: Penguin, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine curved, but not creased. Light edgewear and creasing. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xviii + 750 pages. A critically acclaimed study documents the outbreaks of newly discovered diseases around the globe, such as HIV, Lassa, and Ebola, and explores the social and environmental deterioration that helps to keep such viruses alive.
Synopsis
Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases—HIV, Lassa, Ebola, and others. Laurie Garrett takes you on a fifty-year journey through the world's battles with microbes and examines the worldwide conditions that have culminated in recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered diseases, epidemics of diseases migrating to new areas, and mutated old diseases that are no longer curable. She argues that it is not too late to take action to prevent the further onslaught of viruses and microbes, and offers possible solutions for a healthier future.
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- Books of the World (US)
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- RWARE0000000514
- Title
- The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
- Author
- Laurie Garrett
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140250913
- ISBN 13
- 9780140250916
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- October 1995
- Pages
- xviii + 750
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- epidemiology, communicable diseas, infectious disease, hemorrhagic fever, ebola, hantavirus, HIV, AIDS, lassa fever, legionnaires' disea, Marburg, meningitis, swine flu, yellow fever
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- Africa; Science & Technology;
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