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

Author: Laurie Garrett Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, History, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140250916 0140250913

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. Similar books: Killer Germs by Barry E. Zimmerman Beating Back the Devil by Maryn McKenna Secret Agents by Madeline Drexler Virus X by Frank Ryan The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes Spillover by David Quammen The Devil's Flu by Pete Davies Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC by Joseph B. McCormick Uranium by Tom Zoellner Fool Me Twice by Shawn Lawrence Otto Pandemic by Sonia Shah Influenza by Jeremy Brown The Hot Zone by Richard Preston The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston Rabid by Bill Wasik A Field Guide to Germs by Wayne Biddle The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes Toms River by Dan Fagin