The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
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.
Since 2004, Laurie Garrett has been a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Garrett is the New York Times bestselling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1994) and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (2000). She has appeared frequently on national television programs, including Nightline, PBS NewsHour, The Charlie Rose Show, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including a Pulitzer Prize and Peabody and Polk awards.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140250916 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140250913 |
| Title | The Coming Plague |
| Author | Laurie Garrett |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 1995-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 768 |
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