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Penguin
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750

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Epidemiology -- Popular works., Communicable diseases -- Popular works.

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The coming plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance
1995, Penguin
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Table of 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 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.
Nature and homo sapiens: seal plague, cholera, global warming, biodiversity, and the microbial soup
Searching for solutions: preparedness, surveillance, and the new understanding
Afterword.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Popular works.

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xvii, 750 p. :
Number of pages
750

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OL18728834M
ISBN 10
0140250913

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