Full name: The Plague Race: A Scientific Odyssey

Author: Edward Marriott Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780330483193 0330483196

This is the story of how one brave scientist unlocked the mystery at the heart of this most feared of diseases. This discovery was made in Hong Kong at the beginning of the 20th century, during an outbreak that threatened to decimate the island and, from there, the world. A tense and frightening race was run in appalling conditions by two rival scientists: Alexandre Yersin - rigorous, solitary, cerebral - and the suave Kitasaka, unscrupulous, enigmatic, careless. Spiced with anecdotes, facts and chilling reconstructions, this investigation of the plague in the modern world brings some disturbing facts to light. Similar books: Blood Work by Holly Tucker Rabid by Bill Wasik Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright Polio by David M. Oshinsky Influenza by Jeremy Brown Flu by Gina Kolata The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager Quackery by Lydia Kang The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan Disease by Mary Dobson All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Vaccine by Arthur Allen Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery History by Adam Hart-Davis The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby Astoria by Peter Stark Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon The Gold Hunters by J. D. Borthwick