Who Gave Pinta The Santa Maria?
Tracking the Devastating Spread of Lethal Diseases into America. Robert S. Desowitz. 1998. Harcourt Brace, San Diego, CA. 256 pp. $13, paperback, ISBN 0-15-600585-9. A look at the future in which global climate change and deforestation in the tropics could trigger a reinvasion of North America by diseases that we commonly associate only with the tropics. A detailed review of the history of the arrival of diseases in the Americas, our efforts to control them, and prospects for renewed outbreaks in the future. Intriguing account of yellow-fever in Philadelphia; malaria in Washington, DC; and the Ebola virus in Baltimore.
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