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

Laurie Garrett

Penguin, Oct 1, 1995 - History - 750 pages

Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases—HIV, Lassa, Ebola, and others. Laurie Garrett takes you on a fifty-year journey through the world's battles with microbes and examines the worldwide conditions that have culminated in recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered diseases, epidemics of diseases migrating to new areas, and mutated old diseases that are no longer curable. She argues that it is not too late to take action to prevent the further onslaught of viruses and microbes, and offers possible solutions for a healthier future.

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User Review -

Quite scientific and at times a difficult read. Some of the chapters felt more like full books as they were so long. All in all a very good book for those with an interest in epidemiology.

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

User Review  - Jessica McReaderpants - Goodreads

This is one of the most interesting amazing books about the different viruses that plague us (as humankind) what started them, how we track them, what happened to the people who got it, amazing book ...

Contents

• II: 3
• III: 13
• IV: 30

About the author

Garrett is a Pulitzer Prize-winnng reporter who has been a health and science writer for Newsday since 1988, and a frequent contributor to such publications as The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Foreign Affairs. Previously, she was science correspondent for NPR.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance; Penguin Books. Science, current affairs; The New York Times bestseller
• Author: Laurie Garrett
• Edition: reprint, illustrated
• Publisher: Penguin, 1995
• ISBN: 0140250913, 9780140250916
• Length: 750 pages
• Subjects: History / General; Medical / Epidemiology; Medical / General; Medical / Infectious Diseases; Science / Life Sciences / Microbiology