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Edited by Jim Whitman. 336 pp., illustrated. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. $69.95. ISBN 0-312-22854-6.

In the 25 years between the conquest of poliomyelitis in the developed world and the emergence of AIDS, infectious diseases as a serious threat to human health dropped out of the popular and political consciousness of wealthy developed nations. Now they are again knocking at the gates from without and surreptitiously infiltrating the citadels from within. Outbreaks of bubonic plague in India and of Lassa fever in Africa have sent shudders through the West in recent years. Likewise, the resurgence of mumps and diphtheria in Russia indicates very clearly the dangers inherent in modern vaccine-based public health systems, and relentlessly . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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