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A New York Times bestsellerThe definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett"Prodigiously researched . . . A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-...

An important, urgent, brilliantly-told look at the pandemics of our world today - now reissued with a new preface by the author `A sober, scary book that not only limms the dangers posed by emerging diseases but also raises serious questions about two centuries worth of Enlightenment beliefs in science and technology and progress' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times`A brilliant job of putting scientific work into layman's language, and the sc...

»Alte« Krankheiten, inzwischen gegen Medikamente resistent geworden, kehren wieder zurück, neue kommen hinzu. Aids ist nur die spektakulärste dieser neuen Plagen. Nicht minder bedrohlich sind resistente Tuberkulose und Cholera, gefährliche Bakterienmutanten und exotische Viren, die innerhalb von Stunden den Tod bringen können. Unversehens hat es den Anschein, als sei unser Arsenal an Heilmitteln und Impfstoffen wirkungslos oder zumindest weni...

In this explosive book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Coming Plague", Garrett takes readers across the globe to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophes together form a terrifying portrait of real global disaster in the making.