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Man and microbes : disease and plagues in history and modern times / Arno Karlen
Bib ID 604402
Format BookBook
Author
Karlen, Arno
 
Description New York : Putnam, c1995 
266 p. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0874777593 (alk. paper) 
Summary

AIDS, Lyme disease, and the deadly hantavirus are just a few of the dozens of new diseases to arrive in recent years. Old ones such as TB and cholera have returned with sharper virulence. Where do new diseases come from? Why are old ones back as vicious changelings? Why now? We created this epidemic of epidemics by transforming our environment and behavior - our landscape, technology, and sex lives. Thus we hasten microbes' evolution and our own, making the world a global village for diseases.

Notes

"A Jeremy P. Tarcher/­Putnam Book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-249) and index.

Subjects Epidemics - History.  |  Disease outbreaks.  |  Bacterial infections - Etiology.  |  Bacterial infections - Epidemiology.  |  Virus diseases - Etiology.  |  Virus diseases - Epidemiology.

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