The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
While the human race battles itself ... the advantage moves to the microbes' court. They are our predators and they will be victorious if we, Homo sapiens, do not learn how to live in a rational global village that affords the microbes few opportunities.
Her picture is not entirely bleak. Epidemics grow when a disease outbreak is amplified--by contaminated water supplies, by shared needles, by recirculated air, by prostitution. And controlling the amplifiers of disease is within our power; it's a matter of money, people, and will. --Mary Ellen Curtin
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68 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 28, 2008 Type: User Review |
This Should Be Required Reading HS Level
I first read this book shortly after it came out about 12 years ago. I was so angry and scared after realizing the real situation for global disease and treatments or lack thereof. I recently was sorting through books to sell and came across this...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 24, 2008 Type: User Review |
Inspiring
In nearly 700 well researched pages, Laurie Garrett has managed to turn a usually dry subject into a gripping tale of disease-warriors combating humanity's oldest enemies. This is only the tip of the iceberg for any respectable medical...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 03, 2007 Type: User Review |
More riveting than The Hot Zone
If you liked The Hot Zone, you will love this book. The Hot Zone told the scary story of a variant of Ebola that turned out to be harmless to humans. The Coming Plague narrates the history of little-known but lethal diseases such as Machupo,...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 23, 2007 Type: User Review |
Fascinating and frightening
This book, when it came out, pointed out the coming problems in our medical system like antibiotic resistance, long before it became common knowledge. But it also suggests that as we continue to transform our environment, new plagues and diseases...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 31, 2007 Type: User Review |
Extraordinary
After finishing this book you will never read a newspaper the same way again. I am amazed, and a little scared, at how much of what Laurie Garrett wrote in 1995 has come to pass in 2007. Her story about the "disease cowboys" who track the causes...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 30, 2006 Type: User Review |
One of the Four Horsemen
I read this book when it first came out and lost it when a friend didn't return it. This a fascinating book and since it was first published SARS and Bird Flu has entered our world. If you are prone to panic attacks or nightmares don't read this...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 07, 2006 Type: User Review |
Superb research
This book is superb for a number of reasons but the meticulous research behind it really stands out. There is not an idea or suggested proposition that is not referenced to one - and sometimes - mulitple sources. The tentive conclusions that are...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 23, 2006 Type: User Review |
BUREAUCRATIC BUNGLING AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
I began to read this book with hope it would be a good one. I figured it might cover the science of a new epidemic, or its social consequences. Or perhaps it would focus on historical plagues, giving us a glimpse of what the future has in store....
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 22, 2006 Type: User Review |
Awesome Book!
This book is a very long read, but the details and the descriptions make it unbelievably entertaining and educational.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 01, 2005 Type: User Review |
Well worth wading through.
This large but highly readable work covers the history and context of emerging or re-emerging communicable diseases affecting the world today. As a physician with a Masters in Public Health I could appreciate the challenge this author faced in...
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5.00/5 |
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