Nature and homo sapiens: seal plague, cholera, global warming, biodiversity, and the microbial soup - Searching for solutions: preparedness, surveillance, and the new understanding - AfterwordĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:44:15 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA151801 Boxid_2 CH105601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 5. 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 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

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The coming plague by laurie garrett