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. Currently the Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Laurie Garrett is the author of the best-selling books The Coming Plague. 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. 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. BYU Authentic Legacy Marriott Center Oval Y LED SignsĪfter 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.

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The coming plague by laurie garrett