
Introduction - Machupo: Bolivian hemorragic fever - Health transition: the age of optimism, setting out to eradicate disease - Monkey kidneys and the ebbing tides: Marburg virus, yellow fever, and the Brazilian meningitis epidemic - Into the woods: lassa fever - Yambuku: Ebola - The American bicentennial: swine flu and Legionnaires' Disease - N'zara: lassa, ebola, and the developing world's economic and social policies - Revolution: genetic engineering and the discovery of oncogenes Includes bibliographical references and index

"First published in the United States opf America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994"-T.p.
