The coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance /
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1994.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Machupo: Bolivian hemorragic fever
- Health transition: the age of optimism, setting out to eradicate disease
- Monkey kidneys and the ebbing tides: Marburg virus, yellow fever, and the Brazilian meningitis epidemic
- Into the woods: lassa fever
- Yambuku: Ebola
- The American bicentennial: swine flu and Legionnaires' Disease
- N'zara: lassa, ebola, and the developing world's economic and social policies
- Revolution: genetic engineering and the discovery of oncogenes. Microbe Magnets: urban centers of disease
- Distant thunder: sexually transmitted diseases and injecting drug users
- Hatari: vinidogodogo (danger: a very little thing): the origins of AIDS
- Feminine hygiene (as debated, mostly, by men): toxic shock syndrome
- The revenge of the germs, or just keep inventing new drugs: drug-resistant bacteria, viruses, and parasites
- Thirdworldization: the interactions of poverty, poor housing, and social despair with disease
- All in good haste: hantaviruses in America. Nature and homo sapiens: seal plague, cholera, global warming, biodiversity, and the microbial soup
- Searching for solutions: preparedness, surveillance, and the new understanding
- Afterword.