The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance Kindle Edition

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“Here’s a volume that are supposed to be required reading for policy makers and health professionals.” – Kirkus ReviewsAfter four decades of assuming that the conquest of all infectous diseases used to be imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water remedy, and exotic viruses that may kill in a matter of hours. In response to extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology and medicine, in addition to field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, Central The united states and the US, The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of northern Zaire on a harrowing, fifty year journey through our battles with the microbes, and tells us what will have to be done to prevent the coming plague.