| Description |
xiii, 750 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Introduction -- Machupo: Bolivian hemorragic fever -- Health transition: the age of optimism, setting out to eradicate disease -- Monkey kidneys and the ebbing tides: Marburg virus, yellow fever, and the Brazilian meningitis epidemic -- Into the woods: lassa fever -- Yambuku: Ebola -- The American bicentennial: swine flu and Legionnaires' Disease -- N'zara: lassa, ebola, and the developing world's economic and social policies -- Revolution: genetic engineering and the discovery of oncogenes |
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Microbe Magnets: urban centers of disease -- Distant thunder: sexually transmitted diseases and injecting drug users -- Hatari: vinidogodogo (danger: a very little thing): the origins of AIDS -- Feminine hygiene (as debated, mostly, by men): toxic shock syndrome -- The revenge of the germs, or just keep inventing new drugs: drug-resistant bacteria, viruses, and parasites -- Thirdworldization: the interactions of poverty, poor housing, and social despair with disease -- All in good haste: hantaviruses in America |
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Nature and homo sapiens: seal plague, cholera, global warming, biodiversity, and the microbial soup -- Searching for solutions: preparedness, surveillance, and the new understanding -- Afterword |
| Summary |
An exploration of the battle against microbes, based on research in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine, examines the current outbreak of infectious diseases and outlines what can be done to prevent the coming plague |
| Analysis |
Communicable diseases |
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Disease outbreaks |
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Diseases |
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Global data |
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Overseas item |
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Viruses |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Communicable diseases -- Popular works.
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Communicable diseases.
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Epidemiology -- Popular works.
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Epidemiology.
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Virus diseases.
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Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- epidemiology.
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Epidemiology.
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Communicable Diseases.
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Communicable Diseases.
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Epidemiology.
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| Genre/Form |
Popular Work.
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| LC no. |
94026285 |
| ISBN |
0374126461 |
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