Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them
Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them Books
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“In a clear, engaging style, Dr. Walters tells the tale of each disease like a detective tale. He allows each mystery to tell as it did in reality, often slowly, through the lives of the plants and animals caught up, the first human victims, the government officials who tried to answer, and the scientists who ultimately clarified what was happening.” -NEW YORK TIMES
“…a fascinating work of ecological journalism, absolutely convincing in its argument: that our health and the health of the environment are intimately linked, and we overlook that link at our peril.” -MICHAEL POLLAN, AUTHOR OF SECOND NATURE AND THE BOTANY OF DESIRE
“Mark Jerome Walters weaves a fine thread of human disturbances through the quilt work of modern pandemics. After being drawn engagingly into the explosive symptoms of global environmental exchange, readers will come to know that we have no choice but to make peace with nature.” -PAUL R. EPSTEIN, M.D., M.P.H., CENTER FOR HEALTH AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
West Nile Virus — Mad Cow Disease — HIV/AIDS — Hantavirus — Lyme Disease … and a new strain of Salmonella. Such modern epidemics have emerged over the past few decades as mysterious, yet significant risks to human health. These “plagues” are forcing us to modify our lifestyles in ways that minimize our chances of apt a statistic in the latest tally of the afflicted.
In Six Modern Plagues, Mark Jerome Walters offers us the first book for the general reader that connects these emerging health risks and their ecological origins. Drawing on new research, interviews, and his own investigations, Mark Jerome Walters 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.
According to Mark Jerome Walters, humans are not everlastingly innocent bystanders to infectious disease. To the contrary, in the case of many modern epidemics, we are the instigators. Six Modern Plagues, a ground-breaking introduction to the connection between disease and environmental degradation should be read by all those interested in their health and the health of others.
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