epidemiology

"Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and Harvard AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin, PhD, recount for the first time how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new genetic discoveries, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best means to fight it today"--Provided by publisher.

Presents balanced opposing points of view on five key topics of the complex and sensitive issue of the AIDS disease.

Chronicles the history of the Centers for Disease Control against the backdrop of the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Zaire, discussing the origins and accomplishments of the fifty-year-old agency, and looking at some of the doctors who risk their lives to fight deadly diseases.

A study of new and reappearing diseases that have been causing death and terror around the world in the last few decades of the twentieth century, spotlighting the doctors and scientists who are risking their lives to contain the viruses, and arguing that the deadly microbes are a result of the human impact on earth's ecosystem.

Contains twenty essays that debate issues associated AIDS from varying perspectives, discussing the threat of the AIDS epidemic, how the spread of the disease can be controlled, and approaches to the epidemic on a global level.

Presents the results of the author's investigation of the outbreak of an anthrax epidemic that claimed the lives of sixty-four people in the city of Sverdlovsk in April, 1979.

Examines the health consequences of local and global pollution, sharing the story of how her family was affected by pollution, and arguing that the government needs to take a proactive position to prevent environmental hazards from killing and incapacitating the public.