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[1994]
Description
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...
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"Tens of millions are dying of new, untreatable forms of tuberculosis, malaria, strep, staph, and other organisms. Millions more are dying of AIDS. Measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases still kill hundreds of thousands more children every year. Hospitals have become primary vehicles for the spread of disease--not their cure. These are not the results of mysterious, malicious microbes. These are public health failures. The system we...
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