Coming Plague Pt. 1 : Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Garrett, Laurie

• ISBN13: 9780140250916
• ISBN10: 0140250913
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Introduction	3	(10)
Machupo
Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever	13	(17)
Health Transition
The Age of Optimism---Setting Out to Eradicate Disease	30	(23)
Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides
Marburg Virus, Yellow Fever, and the Brazilian Meningitis Epidemic	53	(18)
Into the Woods
Lassa Fever	71	(29)
Yambuku
Ebola	100	(53)
The American Bicentennial
Swine Flu and Legionnaires' Disease	153	(39)
N'zara
Lassa, Ebola, and the Developing World's Economic and Social Policies	192	(30)
Revolution
Genetic Engineering and the Discovery of Oncogenes	222	(12)
Microbe Magnets
Urban Centers of Disease	234	(26)
Distant Thunder
Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Injecting Drug Users	260	(21)
Hatari: Vinidogodogo (Danger: A Very Little Thing)
The Origins of AIDS	281	(109)
Feminine Hygiene (As Debated, Mostly, by Men)
Toxic Shock Syndrome	390	(21)
The Revenge of the Germs, or Just Keep Inventing New Drugs
Drug-Resistant Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites	411	(46)
Thirdworldization
The Interactions of Poverty, Poor Housing, and Social Despair with Disease	457	(71)
All in Good Haste
Hantaviruses in America	528	(22)
Nature and Homo sapiens
Seal Plague, Cholera, Global Warming, Biodiversity, and the Microbial Soup	550	(42)
Searching for Solutions
Preparedness, Surveillance, and the New Understanding	592	(29)
Afterword	621	(2)
Notes	623	(106)
Acknowledgments	729	(2)
Index	731