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.Laurie Garrett has worked at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York as a Senior Fellow for Global Health since 2004. Garrett is the author of The Coming Plague: Newly Developing Diseases in an Out-of-Balance Society (1994) and Betrayal of Trust: The Breakdown of Global Public Health (2000), both of which were New York Times bestsellers. Nightline, PBS NewsHour, The Charlie Rose Show, and The Oprah Winfrey Show are just a few of the national television shows she's featured on. She has won multiple prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Peabody and Polk awards.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781250796127 |
| ISBN 10 | 1250796121 |
| Title | The Coming Plague |
| Author | Laurie Garrett |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Picador USA |
| Year published | 2020-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 768 |
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