Plagues - Christopher Wills
their origin, history and future
KORTE INHOUD
Plagues goes beyond the recent terrifying new stories about outbreaks of disease in Rwanda, India and Kenya to ask the simple, fascinating question: why are there plagues?
Plagues are unusual events, and the protozoa, bacteria and viruses that cause them often gone out on an evolutionary limb. Through the use of compelling stories and anecdotes, Christopher Wills describes in vivid terms the story of such scourges as the plague of Justinian, the Black Death, malaria, typhoid, cholera, syphilis and AIDS.
His book reveals how the work of scientists using new molecular techniques has shown that plague organisms can only overcome our defences by dropping their own guards and becoming more vulnerable in the process. Wills shows that we can conquer plagues, for the organisms that caus them are living on the very edge of the possible.
But plagues are only a part of this extraordinary evolutionary story. As he ranges from the teeming slums of Calcutta to the depths of the Peruvian rainforest, Christopher Wills demonstra...
Plagues are unusual events, and the protozoa, bacteria and viruses that cause them often gone out on an evolutionary limb. Through the use of compelling stories and anecdotes, Christopher Wills describes in vivid terms the story of such scourges as the plague of Justinian, the Black Death, malaria, typhoid, cholera, syphilis and AIDS.
His book reveals how the work of scientists using new molecular techniques has shown that plague organisms can only overcome our defences by dropping their own guards and becoming more vulnerable in the process. Wills shows that we can conquer plagues, for the organisms that caus them are living on the very edge of the possible.
But plagues are only a part of this extraordinary evolutionary story. As he ranges from the teeming slums of Calcutta to the depths of the Peruvian rainforest, Christopher Wills demonstra...
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