The level of detail is amazing, with fascinating portraits of the so-called disease cowboys, the doctors and scientists who fight infectious diseases on the front lines. This book is a work of investigative reportage like no other and a wake-up call to a world that has become complacent in the face of infectious disease-one that offers a sobering and prescient warning about the dangers of ignoring the coming plague. A masterpiece of reporting and writing, The Coming Plague is the best and most thorough book on the terrifying emergence of new plagues. Relying on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine, as well as field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, Central America, and the United States, Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo on a harrowing, fifty year journey through the history of our battles with microbes.

A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one.' -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times After decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease 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. Columnist and author of award-winning books on public health, including The Coming Plague Laurie Garrett is an author, speaker and columnist focused on. Laurie Garrett takes you on a fifty-year journey through the worlds battles with microbes and examines the worldwide conditions that have culminated in recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered.

A New York Times bestseller The definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize -winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett 'Prodigiously researched. The book places emphasis on the emergence of new pathogenic microorganisms and how they are destroying the once optimistic view of eradicating all infectious.

The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett