A disturbing report of the current global crisis of new and resurgent diseases. This account investigates how and why diseases such as AIDS, Legionnaires' disease, Ebola, TB, and new forms of cholera and malaria occur. Karlen charts humanity's relationship with microbes, from the earliest hominids' probable encounters with bubonic plague, to the spread of infections through trade, conquest and empire, to the problems awaiting the human race in the near future. Using research from the fields of genetics, virology and epidemiology, he concludes that today's epidemics are part of an ancient pattern: whenever people make radical changes in their lifestyle and environment, disease flourishes.
- ISBN10 0575062274
- ISBN13 9780575062276
- Publish Date 19 October 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 March 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Edition TSP ed
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 272
- Language English