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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

Name: The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Brand: Picador USA
SKU: 9781250796127
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Contributors:

Laurie Garrett

Publisher:

Picador USA

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Science, Medical, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Life Sciences, Epidemiology, Disease & Health Issues

Book Topic:

Microbiology

Audience:

Young Adult

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Release Date:

2020-08-25

ISBN 13:

9781250796127

Weight:

1.5 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 1.30 inches

Pages:

768

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A New York Times bestseller

The definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett

"Prodigiously researched . . . A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

After decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours.

Relying on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine, as well as field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, Central America, and the United States, Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo on a harrowing, fifty year journey through the history of our battles with microbes. This book is a work of investigative reportage like no other and a wake-up call to a world that has become complacent in the face of infectious disease--one that offers a sobering and prescient warning about the dangers of ignoring the coming plague.

About the Author
Laurie Garrett is a science contributor for NBC News and MSNBC and a former senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the recipient of a Peabody Award, two Polk Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism. Her books include The Coming Plague, Betrayal of Trust, and I Heard the Sirens Scream.

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