Twenty-First Century Plague:The Story of SARS
- MedicineHealth Sciences Public Health
- Categories:Medicine
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:September,2004
- Pages:180
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- Size:156mm×234mm
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- Text Color:Black and white
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Review
“Abraham gives us an excellent and dispassionate account of the cultural and political background to the cover-up and the unfortunate consequences.” —Nature
“Abraham offers insights into the ‘dos and don’ts’ of managing a public health crisis and provides key learning points.” —Suok Kai Chew, Journal of the American Medical Association
“A ringside account of the world’s recent encounter with the emerging infectious disease SARS. Engagingly written by an accomplished journalist.” —Robert Dorit, American Scientist
“In this detailed report by Abraham, the inability of health care systems to cope with such newly emergent infections is clear.” —Choice
“The book is richly filled with facts, and they are conveyed in a captivating manner. It is as impressive as the film Outbreak.” —New England Journal of Medicine
“Twenty-First Century Plague describes many of the people, events, political settings, and other contributing factors in a fascinating view of the story behind the story of the outbreak.” —Larry J. Anderson, Science
“The book provides an important summary of many aspects of the global experience with a new disease and discusses important lessons learned from the SARS response.” —James M. Hughes, Journal of Clinical Investigation
Description
Before it was reined in by a remarkable international scientific effort, the virus demonstrated just how vulnerable human society is to disease. Emerging new infectious diseases like SARS have been erupting at an alarming rate over the past few decades. There is every indication that the world will continue to face new viral diseases, some of which will be much more lethal and contagious than SARS.
This book looks at the emergence of new diseases, as well as the politics and economics of disease. It provides the first behind-the-scenes account of how the battle against SARS was fought in Hong Kong, China and at the global level. A crucial success in the battle was the identification of the SARS virus.
Thomas Abraham, with full access to the scientists who solved this puzzle, tells the story of the research and vividly shows the pressures on the researchers as they raced to find an answer, even as colleagues and friends succumbed to the disease.