TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garrett,Laurie
TI  - The coming plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance 
SN  - 0140250913
AV  - RA 651  .G192 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Communicable diseases
KW  - popular works
KW  - Communicable Diseases
KW  - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
N1  - Cover title has been cut; Includes bibliographical references (p. [623]-727) and index; Introduction -- Machupo: Bolivian hemorragic 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 -- 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 -- Afterword
ER  -