A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA The syringe containing Ebola-infected guinea pig blood jammed into the tip of his thumb For nearly a month Platt had toiled with caution and deliberation in his laboratory at …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA The viruses simply answered back: “????” Piot eagerly prepared the sample for analysis under an electron microscope. He gasped as he stared at the strange viruses; they were shaped …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA WHO enlisted high-security laboratories all over the world WHO enlisted high-security laboratories all over the world. Throughout October and November 1976 blood and tissue samples from disease victims in …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA Dr. William Close immediately contacted the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta Dr. William Close, in Wyoming at the time, had lived sixteen years in Kinshasa, serving as personal …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA Yombe Ngongo was fighting for her life at home Yombe Ngongo had checked out on August 30, 1976 and was now fighting for her life at home, in the …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA Sure, he had a fever, but it was undoubtedly just the malaria again Mabalo Lokela (whom friends called Antoine) was in great mood. Sure, he had a fever, but …
The hypocrisies, cruelties, failings, and inadequacies of humanity’s sacred institutions At the macro level a sense of global interconnectedness was developing over such issues as economic justice and development, environmental preservation, and, in a few instances, regulation. However, it wasn’t until the emergence of the human immunodeficiency virus, that the limits of, and imperatives for, …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett. Part 2 Introduction By the time my Uncle Bernard started his medical studies at the University of Chicago in 1932 he had already witnessed the great influenza pandemic of 1918-19. He was seven years old when he …
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THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE About the author Laurie Garrett is a health and science writer for Newsday and New York Newsday. A contributing author to AIDS in the World, edited by Jonathan Mann, she was formerly a science correspondent for National Public Radio and has written for …
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