Biohazard The Hot Zone And Beyond

Download or read book Biohazard, the Hot Zone and Beyond written by Peter Brookesmith and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity has always lived with, and sometimes barely survived, plagues, pestilence, and epidemics. Today, horrors such as the Black Death, which wiped out almost half the population of Europe in the fourteenth century, seem like distant nightmares. Improved public health, vaccination, and new drugs have driven many diseases from large parts of the world. At the same time, diseases once under control are beginning to resist antibiotics, and super-resistant superbugs have been found in hospital wards. The threat of AIDS hangs over a whole generation. Nations large and small are genetically engineering biological weapons whose security is far from sure. These are just some of the biological perils we now face. Could a new age of plague and pestilence be about to dawn?--From publisher description.