Laurie Garrett’s book, also reviewed last year, won a Pulitzer prize in 1996
for its account of newly emerging diseases and the return of old enemies such as
TB. In The Coming Plague (Penguin, £12.50, ISBN 0 14 025091 3), she never
loses sight of the old, when the new threatens to overwhelm—in her account
of the Ebola outbreak, she is one of the few commentators who points out that
the poverty of hospitals, lack of equipment and staff contribute to the death
toll.
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