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100 1 $aMarriott, Edward,$d1966-
240 10 $aPlague race
245 10 $aPlague :$ba story of science, rivalry, and the scourge that won't go away /$cEdward Marriott.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books,$c2003.
300 $a302 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: The plague race : United Kingdom : Picador, 2002.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index.
520 $aIn this recounting of medical and human history, Marriott takes us back to Hong Kong in the summer of 1894, when a diagnosis of plague brought two top scientists to the island--Alexandre Yersin, a lone, maverick French bacteriologist, and his eminent rival, the Japanese Shibasaburo Kitasato. Marriott interweaves his narrative of their competition to discover the plague's source with scenes of the scourge's persistence: California in 1900, when plague arrived in the United States; Surat, India, in 1994, where torrential floods drowned millions of rats, causing the worst outbreak in seventy years; and New York City, some time in the future, where there is a rat for every human being, a diminishing budget for pest control, and an emerging strain of plague that is resistant to antibiotics.--From publisher description.
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