The Coming Plague

by Laurie Garrett

  U.S. Agency for International Development

  Upper Volta, Lassa fever in

  urethritis, nonspecific

  Usher, Peter

  Valium

  Valverde Chinel, Luis

  vancomycin

  van der Gröen, Dina

  van der Gröen, Guido

  Vanuatu, malaria in

  Varmus, Harold

  venereal diseases, see sexually transmitted diseases

  Venezuela: malaria in; yellow fever in

  verapamil

  Vero cells

  Vibrio cholerae

  Vietnam; AIDS in; dengue hemorrhagic fever in; malaria in

  Vietnam War

  “viral trafficking,”

  Virginia State Department of Health

  Virgin Islands, yellow fever in

  virology

  Viseltear, Arthur

  visna virus

  VLI Corporation

  Volberding, Paul

  v-src

  Wain-Hobson, Simon

  Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

  War on Cancer

  warts, venereal

  Washington, University of; School of Public Health

  wasting syndrome

  Watergate scandal

  Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome

  Watson, James

  Waxman, Henry

  Webb, Patricia

  Webster, Robert G.

  Weill, Jim

  Weiss, Ted

  Weller, Thomas

  West Nile fever

  Western Blot test

  Western Samoa, influenza in

  Wheelis, Mark

  White, Dan

  White, Harold (Hal)

  White, Keith

  whooping cough

  Widdus, Roy

  Wieden, Al

  Wilson, E. 0.

  Windom, Robert

  Wine, Laura

  Wirth, Dyann

  Wisconsin, University of

  Wisconsin Division of Health

  Wofsy, Constance

  Wolfe, Sidney

  Wong-Stahl, Flossie

  Wood, W. Barry

  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

  World Bank

  World Health Organization (WHO); and AIDS ; and antibiotic resistance; and cholera; Constitution of; emergency response capacities of; and dengue hemorrhagic fever; and Ebola virus; Health Legislation Unit; and influenza; and Lassa fever; and malaria; and Marburg disease; and meningitis; Regional Nursing/Midwifery Task Force; and smallpox; Task Group on global warming; and tuberculosis; Viral Diseases Branch; and yellow fever

  World Summit on Children

  World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention

  World War I influenza pandemic of

  World War II dengue fever spread by; extermination of Jews during; recovery of Europe and Japan after

  Worldwide Primates

  Wiirzburg, University of

  Wydess, Robert

  Wyngaarden, James

  Xikrin Indians

  Yablokov, A. V.

  Yale University; Arbovirus Research Institute

  Yamarat, Charas

  yaws

  yeasts

  yellow fever

  Yemen

  Yersinia: Y. enterocolitica; Y. pestis

  Yombe Ngongo

  Yoshida, Mitsuaki

  Young, Frank

  Yugoslavia; Marburg disease in; smallpox in

  Zah, Peterson

  Zaire; AIDS in ; Ebola virus in; GNP per capita in; Lassa fever in; malaria in; Rwandan refugees in; schistosomiasis in; yellow fever in

  Zaire, National University of

  zalcitabine

  Zambia; AIDS in; malaria in; sexually transmitted diseases in; University of, Medical Library

  ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union)

  ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People’s Union)

  Zayemba Tshiama

  Zidovudine

  Ziegler, Jetty

  Ziegler, John

  Ziegler, Philip

  Zimbabwe; AIDS in; malaria in; schistosomiasis in; sexually transmitted diseases in

  Zimmermann, Friedrich

  zoonosis

  Zubeir, Osman

  Notes

  a poverty = an income of less than $14,000 per year for a family of four.

  Copyright © 1994 by Laurie Garrett

  All rights reserved

  Tenth printing, 1995

  Published simultaneously in Canada by HarperCollinsCanadaLtd

  eISBN 9781429953276

  First eBook Edition : July 2011

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Garrett, Laurie.

  The coming plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance / Laurie Garrett.

  p. cm.

  Includes index.

  1. Epidemiology—Popular works. 2. Communicable diseases—Popular

  works. I. Title.

  RA651.G37 1994 614.4—dc20 94-26285 CIP

  Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint

  material from: The Power Unseen by Bernard Dixon. Copyright © 1994

  by Bernard Dixon. Used with permission of W. H. Freeman and Company.

  Earth in the Balance by Al Gore. Copyright © 1992 by Senator Al Gore.

  Reprinted with permission of Houghton Mifflin Co. The Plague by Albert

  Camus. Copyright © 1948 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Rats, Lice, and

  History by Hans Zinsser. Copyright 1935 by Little, Brown & Co. Excerpt

  from “Sexually Transmitted Diseases” by H. H. Handsfield reprinted from

  Volume 17, issue 1 of Hospital Practice. Excerpts from Arrowsmith by

  Sinclair Lewis, copyright © 1925 by Harcourt Brace & Company and

  renewed 1953 by Michael Lewis, reprinted by permission of the publisher.

  Excerpt from “Lives of a Cell,” copyright © 1971 by the Massachusetts

  Medical Society, from The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas, used by

  permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.