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Plague

a story of science, rivalry, and the scourge that won't go away

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An edition of Plague (2003)

Plague

a story of science, rivalry, and the scourge that won't go away

1st American ed

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  • 5 Want to read

In 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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Metropolitan Books
Language
English
Pages
302

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Subjects

Plague, History

Places

Hong Kong (China : Special Administrative Region), China, Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region)

Times

19th century

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Plague: a story of science, rivalry, and the scourge that won't go away
2003, Metropolitan Books
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Originally published: The plague race : United Kingdom : Picador, 2002

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index

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RC172 .M374 2003, RC172.M374 2003

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Pagination
302 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
302

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50028626
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453444
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1762805

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