scope is encyclopedic, its mass of detail startling." - The Economist "Garrett brilliantly develops her theme that repidly increasing dangers are being ignored. Knox, The Boston Globe "Garrett has done a brilliant job of putting scientific work into layman's language, and the scariness of medical melodramas is offset by the excitement of scientific detection." - The New Yorker "The book is ambitious, but it succeeds. "A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one.a sober, scary book that not only limns the dangers posed by emerging diseases but also raises serious questions about two centuries worth of Enlightenment beliefs in science and technology and progress." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Like her role model Rachel Carson, whose 1962 Silent Spring woke up society to environmental poisoning, Garrett aims to dispel social and political complacency about the threat of old, new, and yet-unknown microbial catastrophes in a golbal ecology that links Bujumbura, Bangkok, and Boston more closely than anyone appreciates." Richard A.
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