Full name: Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Disease

Author: Jeanette Farrell Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374336073 0374336075

Updated to include the most recent breakthroughs First published in 1998, here are the surprisingly fascinating stories of seven diseases that changed the course of human history - updated to reflect new medical and social developments such as: - the ravages of AIDS in Africa, Asia, and other locations - the bioterror threat posed by smallpox eradication - a primitive yet effective new measure for fighting cholera in India - an important new drug to treat malaria - and more Illustrated with over fifty reproductions of photographs, newspaper cartoons, public health posters, and the like, Invisible Enemies is an intense and intriguing mix of history, biography, and biology. Similar books: Scourge by Jonathan B. Tucker Disease by Mary Dobson The Plague Race by Edward Marriott The Devil's Flu by Pete Davies Invincible Microbe by Jim Murphy The Fever by Sonia Shah Invisible Allies by Jeanette Farrell The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Cod by Mark Kurlansky Salt by Mark Kurlansky The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Hackers by Steven Levy The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan The Cracking Code Book by Simon Singh How Apollo Flew to the Moon by W. David Woods