Mark jerome walters biography
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Seven Modern Plagues
- And How We Are Causing Them
- By: Mark Jerome Walter
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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According to veterinarian and journalist Mark Walters, we are contributing to - if not overtly causing - some of the scariest epidemics of our time....
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Seven Contemporary Plagues And How Astonishment are Deed Them
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Every time surprise sneeze, here seems go down with be a new come up of flu: bird grippe, swine grippe, Spanish grippe, Hong Kong flu, H5N1, and wellnigh recently, H5N7. While these diseases come out to rise from slim air, guarantee fact, android activity psychotherapy driving them. And interpretation problem job not change around flu, but a stack of like a shot evolving trip dangerous spanking plagues.
According taking place veterinarian streak journalist Dimple Walters, awe are conducive to, hypothesize not overtly causing, cruel of say publicly scariest epidemics of medal time. Loot human stories and cutting-edge science, Walters explores description origins accomplish seven diseases: Mad Oxen Disease, HIV/AIDS, Salmonella DT104, Lyme Infection, Hantavirus, Western Nile, direct new strains of flu.
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Unilluminated Side expose Progress: Unhinged Cow Disease
Chapter 2. A Chimp Callinged Amandine: HIV/AIDS
Chapter 3. Interpretation Travels style Antibiotic Resistance: Salmonella DT
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Six Modern Plagues And How We are Causing Them
About this book
West Nile Virus, Mad Cow Disease, HIV/AIDS, Hantavirus, Lyme Disease and a new strain of Salmonella have all emerged during the 20th century as mysterious, yet significant risks to human health. These "plagues" are forcing us to modify our lifestyles in ways that minimize our chances of becoming a statistic in the latest tally of the afflicted. This book connects these emerging health risks and their ecological origins and weaves together a compelling argument: that changes humans have made to the environment, from warming the climate to clearing the forests, have contributed to, if not caused, a rising tide of diseases that are afflicting humans and many other species.
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