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The coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance

After four decades of assuming that the conquest of all infectous diseases was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours. Based on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology and medicine, as well as field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Euope, Central America and the United States, The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of northen Zaire on a harrowing, fifty year journey through our battles with the microbes, and tells us what must be done to prevent the coming plague.

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  • "Morové rány dneška"
  • "Newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance"@en

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  • "After four decades of assuming that the conquest of all infectous diseases was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours. Based on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology and medicine, as well as field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Euope, Central America and the United States, The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of northen Zaire on a harrowing, fifty year journey through our battles with the microbes, and tells us what must be done to prevent the coming plague."@en
  • "Unpurified drinking water, improper use of antibiotics, local warfare, massive refugee migration have contributed to changing social and environmental conditions around the world. These have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases : HIV, Lassa, Ebola, and others. The author takes the reader on a fifty year journey through the world's battles with microbes and examines the worldwide 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."
  • "An exploration of the battle against microbes, based on research in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine, examines the current outbreak of infectious diseases and outlines what can be done to prevent the coming plague."@en

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  • "History"@en
  • "Non-fiction"
  • "Popular works"
  • "Popular works"@en
  • "Literatura faktu"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Přežijeme? : morové rány dneška : o nemocech nově se objevujících ve světě vychýleném z rovnováhy"
  • "The coming plague newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance"
  • "The coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance"
  • "The coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance"@en
  • "Bi jin de wen yi"
  • "The coming plague : new emerging diseases in a world out of balance"@en
  • "逼近的瘟疫"
  • "The coming plague"
  • "The coming plague"@en
  • "Die kommenden Plagen : neue Krankheiten in einer gefährdeten Welt"

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