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In this gripping, often harrowing study, Laurie Garrett takes readers on a 50-year journey through the world's battles with microbes, and examines the 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. A New York Times Notable Book in 1994.

Preface

xv

Introduction

3

(10)

Machupo

Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever

13

(17)

Health Transition

The Age of Optimism---Setting Out to Eradicate Disease

30

(23)

Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides

Marburg Virus, Yellow Fever, and the Brazilian Meningitis Epidemic

53

(18)

Into the Woods

Lassa Fever

71

(29)

Yambuku

Ebola

100

(53)

The American Bicentennial

Swine Flu and Legionnaires' Disease

153

(39)

N'zara

Lassa, Ebola, and the Developing World's Economic and Social Policies

192

(30)

Revolution

Genetic Engineering and the Discovery of Oncogenes

222

(12)

Microbe Magnets

Urban Centers of Disease

234

(26)

Distant Thunder

Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Injecting Drug Users

260

(21)

Hatari: Vinidogodogo (Danger: A Very Little Thing)

The Origins of AIDS

281

(109)

Feminine Hygiene (As Debated, Mostly, by Men)

Toxic Shock Syndrome

390

(21)

The Revenge of the Germs, or Just Keep Inventing New Drugs

Drug-Resistant Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites

411

(46)

Thirdworldization

The Interactions of Poverty, Poor Housing, and Social Despair with Disease

457

(71)

All in Good Haste

Hantaviruses in America

528

(22)

Nature and Homo sapiens

Seal Plague, Cholera, Global Warming, Biodiversity, and the Microbial Soup

550

(42)

Searching for Solutions

Preparedness, Surveillance, and the New Understanding

592

(29)

Afterword

621

(2)

Notes

623

(106)

Acknowledgments

729

(2)

Index

731

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