Coming plague newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Machupo: Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever -- 2. Health Transition: The Age of Optimism - Setting Out to Eradicate Disease -- 3. Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides: Marburg Virus, Yellow Fever, and the Brazilian Meningitis Epidemic -- 4. Into the Woods: Lassa Fever -- 5. Yambuku: Ebola -- 6. The American Bicentennial: Swine Flu and Legionnaires' Disease -- 7. N'zara: Lassa, Ebola, and the Developing World's Economic and Social Policies -- 8. Revolution: Genetic Engineering and the Discovery of Oncogenes -- 9. Microbe Magnets: Urban Centers of Disease -- 10. Distant Thunder: Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Injecting Drug Users -- 11. Hatari: Vinidogodogo (Danger: A Very Little Thing): The Origins of AIDS -- 12. Feminine Hygiene (As Debated, Mostly, by Men): Toxic Shock Syndrome -- 13. The Revenge of the Germs, or Just Keep Inventing New Drugs: Drug-Resistant Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites --

14. Thirdworldization: The Interactions of Poverty, Poor Housing, and Social Despair with Disease -- 15. All in Good Haste: Hantaviruses in America -- 16. Nature and Homo sapiens: Seal Plague, Cholera, Global Warming, Biodiversity, and the Microbial Soup -- 17. Searching for Solutions: Preparedness, Surveillance, and the New Understanding.