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The Coming Plague

Laurie Garrett

From Bolivian hemorrhagic fever to AIDS, these investigations trace how ecology, travel, medicine, and public policy shape emerging infections and the choices that contain them.

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19 parts, about 43 minutes to read.

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Author
Laurie Garrett
Parts
19 parts
Reading time
about 43 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. Introduction2 min
  2. Machupo2 min
  3. Health Transition2 min
  4. Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides2 min
  5. Into the Woods2 min
  6. Yambuku3 min
  7. The American Bicentennial2 min
  8. N’zara2 min
  9. Revolution1 min
  10. Microbe Magnets2 min
  11. Distant Thunder2 min
  12. AIDS: recognition, spread, and the unanswered origin5 min
  13. Toxic shock and the changing niche of staphylococcus2 min
  14. Resistance is an ecological response3 min
  15. Poverty and the return of familiar diseases3 min
  16. The Four Corners hantavirus investigation2 min
  17. Human ecology and microbial change3 min
  18. Finding solutions before the next emergence2 min
  19. Return to San Joaquín1 min

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