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(Neurological Disease and Therapy. Vol. 67.) Edited by Christopher Power and Richard T. Johnson. 505 pp., illustrated. Boca Raton, Fla., Taylor & Francis, 2005. $199.95. ISBN 0-8247-5423-9.

There are only two books that I consider to be required reading for practitioners in infectious diseases: Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984) and Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States by Joshua Lederberg et al. (Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 1992). Both of these books are beautifully written perspectives on the interacting factors that underlie most, if not all, epidemics: human behavior (and often, misbehavior), animal reservoirs, vectors, and microbial evolution. And both provide excellent background reading to the more tightly focused Emerging Neurological Infections, edited by Christopher Power and Richard . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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