An edition of Yellow Fever, Black Goddess (1996)

Yellow fever, black goddess

the coevolution of people and plagues

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An edition of Yellow Fever, Black Goddess (1996)

Yellow fever, black goddess

the coevolution of people and plagues

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Yellow Fever, Black Goddess turns the tables on past accounts, focusing not on the microbe hunters but on the microbes themselves, putting these exotic life-forms at center stage, telling their story as they fight to live at the very edge of the possible. Humans acknowledge the existence of our planet's primitive coinhabitants only when they do their worst - emerging to strike down whole populations through rampaging epidemics.

But in fact, the protozoa, bacteria, and viruses that cause such diseases as yellow fever and cholera - which is symbolized by the black goddess - lead complex lives in their own right, struggling ever further out on their evolutionary limbs.

In order to deal with these microbes we must understand the entire evolutionary environment in which they function - from tropical breeding grounds to the resistant temperate zones, from insect viruses to human plagues - and through this alone can we hope to control them. By giving these organisms their due in this remarkable account, Christopher Wills points the way toward gaining that mastery.

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English
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324

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Cover of: Yellow Fever, Black Goddess
Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues
January 1997, Recorded Books
Audio Cassette in English - Unabridged edition
Cover of: Yellow Fever, Black Goddess
Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues (Helix Book)
September 1997, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
in English
Cover of: Yellow fever, black goddess
Yellow fever, black goddess: the coevolution of people and plagues
1996, Addison-Wesley Pub.
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-317) and index.
"First published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins Publishers under the title: Plagues : their origins, history, and future"--T.p. verso.

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Reading, MA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
614.4/9
Library of Congress
RA649 .W55 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 324 p. :
Number of pages
324

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL985881M
Internet Archive
yellowfeverblack0000will
ISBN 10
0201442353
LCCN
96023934
OCLC/WorldCat
34919719
Library Thing
424741
Goodreads
1034161

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Belen, a shantytown suburb of the city of Iquitos, lies on the banks of the Amazon River in eastern Peru, not far from the Brazilian border.
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