The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases In A World Out Of Balance Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
A critically acclaimed study documents the outbreaks of newly discovered diseases around the globe, such as HIV, Lassa, and Ebola, and explores the social and environmental deterioration that helps to keep such viruses alive. Reprint. Tour. NYT.
Paperback: 768 pages
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Reprint edition (October 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140250913
ISBN-13: 978-0140250916
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.8 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (179 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #89,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #42 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Clinical > Infectious Diseases #61 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Research > Epidemiology #197 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Dramas & Plays > Regional & Cultural > United States
With recent news blurbs concerning the possible threat from strains of the West Nile virus in the northeastern part of the country this summer, the urgent importance of this book is quietly being reinforced. This important effort by journalist Laurie Garrett is a whopper; a long, carefully documented and quite readable text giving an overview of the worldwide efforts of the "insect fighters' at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) of the U.S. Public Health Service and other agencies ranging from the U.N to state, university and local agencies to combat a panoply of both new biological agents like HIV, Ebola, and the West Nile virus as well as new and much more virulent and drug-resistant strains of old enemies like tuberculosis, bubonic plague, a number of venereal diseases, and complex new public health concerns like Toxic Shock Syndrome.Ms Garrett's highly detailed and exhaustively documented thesis, written while on a graduate fellowship at Harvard, is both frightening and hard to ignore. She posits that through our environmental arrogance and stupidity, the general medical strategies of the western societies, and our consistent overuse of antibiotics, we are quickly losing the continuing fight to keep the general public of both the postindustrial nations and the less developed world safe from the wild panoply of microbiological agents that are out there in the environment, and we are, through our encroachment on wilderness areas never before populated by humans, unnecessarily introducing segments of the population to new microbiological agents who then find a vector or path into human habitation and resultant infection.
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