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

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

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The microbes have been defeated ... or have they?

by azielinski Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 500, Jun 12 '01
Pros: A serious look at disease in language that most of us understand.
Cons: Some of this stuff made my hair stand on end.
Before the advent of antibiotics and vaccines, infectious disease and death from those diseases were facts of life for most people.

The vast majority of people were exposed to cholera, typhoid, measles, tuberculosis, smallpox, scarlet fever,...
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The bugs are winning

by Tzajdowicz , Dec 20 '99
Pros: Comprehensive, engaging style
Cons: Some errors of fact
Laurie Garrett has written a stunningly comprehensive book on man's age-old interactions with the microbial world -- and details how mankind appears to be slipping in this interaction. Her prose is very good, an engaging story of many diseases now...
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I'm Not An Infectious Disease Specialist, But I Know One

by Darkmistress Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 1000, Dec 28 '00
Pros: Clear, easy to understand, covers a variety of diseases
Cons: You probably shouldn't read it during cold season.
Not so long ago Ruin13 and I were standing in the warehouse discussing this wonderful book I had read on various diseases. I had read it during my heavy epidemic period when I read about a dozen books before being so grossed out by Hot Zone that I...
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