| Description |
xiii, 750 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Machupo : Bolivian herorragic fever -- Health transitions : 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 : genetics 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 : avery 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 durgs: drug-resistant bacteria, viruses, and parasites -- Thirworldization : 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 -- |
| Subject |
Epidemiology -- Popular works
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Communicable diseases -- Popular works
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| ISBN |
0374126461 : $24.00 |
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