The Coming Plague

While working at the Harvard School of Public Health and the New York newspaper Newsday, Laurie Garrett wrote her first best-selling book, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in an Unbalanced World. Garrett was a Fellow at Harvard during the 1992-1993 academic year, where she collaborated closely with the emerging diseases group, a group of faculty concerned about the outbreak of previously unknown or rare viruses and bacteria. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book in hardcover in 1994.

After decades of believing that infectious disease would be eradicated, people on all continents are now under siege from AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera resistant to chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in hours.

Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague, based on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine, as well as field research in Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, Central America, and the United States, takes readers on a harrowing fifty-year journey through the history of our battles with microbes, from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo. This book is a work of investigative reporting unlike any other, as well as a wake-up call to a world that has become complacent in the face of infectious disease, offering a sobering and forewarning about the dangers of ignoring the coming plague.

Author: Laurie Garrett

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