Interesting and well-written, though somewhat out of date. More recent books on a similar subject include: Spillover by David Quammen and The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria by Michael Shnayerson.
Read for UMBC BIOL 141HI liked it well enough. not very technical at all, but I suppose she wanted it to be accessible. but honestly, it got very easy to confuse all the scientists and politicians as more and more people were added. they all felt rather 2-dimensional. but I didn't read this for char...
Bwahahahaha. I'll write a review for this one of these days. Read this in high school and it's remained on my shelves since. Recommended for people who think drowning in your own blood is strangely intriguing.Don't read this if you're prone to hypochondria. Or have a tendency to google your symptoms...
3 starsThis book is in-depth. The focus is on history, detailed facts and what we can do to prevent and cope with new maladies. Even if the book is no longer new, it still teaches a lot. We can learn from past mistakes. For me, parts read as a horror story. Then I calmed down. It first came out in 1...
Many great chapters, but the one on the origins of AIDS is a great summary of that disease's history.
This is an amazing book. Garret gives an overview of all the nastiest diseases on the horizon: Ebola, Marburg...her central point, that expanding human territory is likely to increase contact with animal reservoirs, and that sooner or later, something is going to develop that is both deadly and swi...
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