| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
94026285 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780374126469 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
614.4 Gar |
| Item number |
12 |
| 090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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25293 |
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25293 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
614.4 Gar |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Garrett, Laurie frey50 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The coming plague: |
| Remainder of title |
newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Laurie Garrett. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1994 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 750 p. |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction -- Machupo: Bolivian hemorragic fever -- Health transition: the age of optimism, setting out to eradicate disease -- Monkey kidneys and the ebbing tides: Marburg virus, yellow fever, and the Brazilian meningitis epidemic -- Into the woods: lassa fever -- Yambuku: Ebola -- The American bicentennial: swine flu and Legionnaires' Disease -- N'zara: lassa, ebola, and the developing world's economic and social policies -- Revolution: genetic engineering and the discovery of oncogenes. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Microbe Magnets: urban centers of disease -- Distant thunder: sexually transmitted diseases and injecting drug users -- Hatari: vinidogodogo (danger: a very little thing): the origins of AIDS -- Feminine hygiene (as debated, mostly, by men): toxic shock syndrome -- The revenge of the germs, or just keep inventing new drugs: drug-resistant bacteria, viruses, and parasites -- Thirdworldization: the interactions of poverty, poor housing, and social despair with disease -- All in good haste: hantaviruses in America. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Nature and homo sapiens: seal plague, cholera, global warming, biodiversity, and the microbial soup -- Searching for solutions: preparedness, surveillance, and the new understanding -- Afterword. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Epidemiology |
| General subdivision |
Popular works. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Communicable diseases |
| General subdivision |
Popular works. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Epidemiology |
| General subdivision |
Popular works. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Communicable diseases |
| General subdivision |
Popular works. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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AJML |
| Koha item type |
600 - 699 |
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614.4 Gar |
| 961 WL - |
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12 |