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.
Praise
(unknown) "Absorbing...the insights into the personalities and the stories behind the new infectious diseases are fascinating. I have the greatest admiration for Laurie Garrett." - Abraham Verghese M.D.
