Guest guest Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 Most people think of diseases as things that simply happen to us -- lousy karma or acts of God or just the way of the world. But in the new book "Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them," journalist Mark Jerome Walters argues that we have far more control over diseases than we think -- and that major outbreaks are often the result of the damage we've done to the natural world. The six plagues referred to in the title are AIDS, salmonella, Lyme disease, hantavirus, mad cow disease, and West Nile virus. Walters looks at how we've helped them spread through urban sprawl, factory farming, illegal bush-meat trade, and other environmental disasters. Michelle Nijhuis reviews the results, only on the Grist Magazine website. only in Grist: "Six Modern Plagues" shows how environmental damage leads to disease -- a review by Michelle Nijhuis in Books Unbound <http://www.gristmagazine.com/books/books121003.asp?source=daily> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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