Coming plague newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance
Garrett, Laurie
Coming plague newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance - New York Penguin Books 1994 - xviii,750p. ill., map ; 235 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machupo: Bolivian Hemorrhagic 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 -- 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 -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Thirdworldization: The Interactions of Poverty, Poor Housing, and Social Despair with Disease -- All in Good Haste: Hantaviruses in America -- Nature and Homo sapiens: Seal Plague, Cholera, Global Warming, Biodiversity, and the Microbial Soup -- Searching for Solutions: Preparedness, Surveillance, and the New Understanding. 14. 15. 16. 17.
9780140250916
94026285
Epidemiology--Popular works.
Communicable diseases--Popular works.
RA651 / .G37 1995
614.4 / GA-C
Coming plague newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance - New York Penguin Books 1994 - xviii,750p. ill., map ; 235 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machupo: Bolivian Hemorrhagic 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 -- 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 -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Thirdworldization: The Interactions of Poverty, Poor Housing, and Social Despair with Disease -- All in Good Haste: Hantaviruses in America -- Nature and Homo sapiens: Seal Plague, Cholera, Global Warming, Biodiversity, and the Microbial Soup -- Searching for Solutions: Preparedness, Surveillance, and the New Understanding. 14. 15. 16. 17.
9780140250916
94026285
Epidemiology--Popular works.
Communicable diseases--Popular works.
RA651 / .G37 1995
614.4 / GA-C