Unpurified drinking water, improper use of antibiotics, local warfare, massive refugee migration have contributed to changing social and environmental conditions around the world. With the Ebola outbreak going on now in Western Africa I had to come and revisit this classic. Each new disease/chapter starts with a journalistic story and ends with an educated informative narrative. She breaks down the emergence of Ebola and the other emerging viruses and what it could mean in a brilliantly entertaining way. She takes us through the history of viruses in a journalistic/story approach. It is a much tighter more informative book. For anyone that has read the more popular book by Richard Preston "The Hot Zone" this is a must read. This is an amazing book that Laura Garrett wrote back in the 90's.
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