Tropical Diseases from 50,000 BC to 2500 Ad

by Robert S. Desowitz

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 000654794X
• ISBN13: 9780006547945
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

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Tropical Diseases

Many of the diseases we assume are exclusively tropical actually have frequently occurred in developed countries with temperate climates, such as the Ebola Virus in the U.S. & Malaria & Yellow Fever in Britain. Desowitz shows that human migrants have unknowingly carried dangerous pathogens around the world. Also examines the potentially catastrophic health problems facing the Third World, & weighs the risk that new Ôdoomsday bugs' will emerge & be transferred to the developed world. With temperatures, sea levels & pop's. set to rise, he predicts that the virulent Ôhot strain' diseases of the tropics will inch closer to our temperate climes.