The coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance / Laurie Garrett.

Author: Garrett, Laurie.

Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.

ISBN: 0374126461 :

Description: xiii, 750 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

Subject: Epidemiology Popular works.
Communicable diseases Popular works.

Contents: 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 hygie ne (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 -- Third worldization: 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.