The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance [Audiobook] by Laurie Garrett
English | September 30, 2009 | ASIN: B002R2AFHW | M4B@64 kbps | 34 hrs 2 mins | 928 MB
Narrator: Kimberly Schraf
English | September 30, 2009 | ASIN: B002R2AFHW | M4B@64 kbps | 34 hrs 2 mins | 928 MB
Narrator: Kimberly Schraf
After four decades of assuming that the conquest of all infectous diseases 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.
Based 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, The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of northern Zaire on a harrowing, fifty year journey through our battles with the microbes, and tells us what must be done to prevent the coming plague.