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The new killer diseases : how the alarming evolution of mutant germs threatens us all / Elinor Levy and Mark Fischetti.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Crown Publishers, c2003.Description: 311 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0609609947
Contents:
Introduction: SARS, the newest killer -- Ch. 1. The case of Jeannie Brown -- Ch. 2. The bioterrorism challenge: meeting the threat -- Ch. 3. Our ailing pathogen alert system: germs from abroad -- Ch. 4. Mad cow and chronic wasting disease: the strange horrors of prions -- Ch. 5. E. Coli gone bad: runaway bacterial evolution -- Ch. 6. Bacterial resistance: the dangers of antibiotics and hospitals -- Ch. 7. The next flu pandemic: rapidly mutating viruses -- Ch. 8. TB again: the fight-then-forget cycle -- Ch. 9. Ticking time bombs: chronic diseases combining forces -- Ch. 10. What we must do.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: SARS, the newest killer -- Ch. 1. The case of Jeannie Brown -- Ch. 2. The bioterrorism challenge: meeting the threat -- Ch. 3. Our ailing pathogen alert system: germs from abroad -- Ch. 4. Mad cow and chronic wasting disease: the strange horrors of prions -- Ch. 5. E. Coli gone bad: runaway bacterial evolution -- Ch. 6. Bacterial resistance: the dangers of antibiotics and hospitals -- Ch. 7. The next flu pandemic: rapidly mutating viruses -- Ch. 8. TB again: the fight-then-forget cycle -- Ch. 9. Ticking time bombs: chronic diseases combining forces -- Ch. 10. What we must do.

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