By Laurie Garrett. 750 pp. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994. $25. ISBN 0-374-12646-1.
During the past decade, members of the infectious-disease andpublic health communities began to express concern about theappearance of new infectious diseases and the resurgence ofpreviously recognized ones. The advent of the acquired immunodeficiencysyndrome (AIDS) and the discovery of its cause, a new virus,were the most dramatic in a series of developments involvingnew, emerging, or reemerging infectious diseases. Toward theend of the decade, scientific meetings were organized to discussemerging infectious diseases, and in 1992 the Institute of Medicinereleased a watershed report entitled Emerging Infections: MicrobialThreats to Health in the United States. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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