The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Based on research and interviews with experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine, an exploration of our battles with microbes examines the current outbreak of infectious diseases and outlines what can be done to prevent the coming plague. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
Based on research and interviews with experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine, an exploration of our battles with microbes examines the current outbreak of infectious diseases and outlines what can be done to prevent the coming plague. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374126469 (0374126461)
ASIN: 374126461
Publish date: October 1st 1994
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Pages no: 750
Edition language: English
Interesting and well-written, though somewhat out of date.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.
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