Walters, Mark Jerome.

Six modern plagues and how we are causing them / Mark Jerome Walters. - Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2003. - 206 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-190) and index.

The darkside of progress : Mad cow disease -- A chimp called Amandine : HIV/AIDS -- The travels of antibiotic resistance : Salmonella DT104 -- Of old growth and arthritis : Lyme disease -- A spring to die for : Hantavirus -- A virus from the Nile.

155963992X (alk. paper)

2003015137


Epidemiology--Popular works.
Environmental health--Popular works.
Human ecology--Popular works.

RA653 / .W34 2003

614.4