Full name: Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections

Author: Madeline Drexler Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780142002612 0142002615

As timely as it is urgent, this well-researched book from veteran science journalist Madeline Drexler delivers a compelling report on today's most ominous infectious disease threats. She focuses on a different danger in each chapter-from the looming risk of lethal influenza to in-depth information on the public health perils posed by bioterrorism. With a novelist's descriptive eye and a thriller writer's sense of tension, she warns us that the most ceaselessly creative bioterrorist is still Mother Nature, whose microbial operatives are all around us, ready to pounce when conditions are right. Similar books: The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett Virus X by Frank Ryan Spillover by David Quammen Killer Germs by Barry E. Zimmerman The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC by Joseph B. McCormick The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Cod by Mark Kurlansky Salt by Mark Kurlansky The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Hackers by Steven Levy The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan The Cracking Code Book by Simon Singh The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston The Information by James Gleick Meetings with Remarkable Trees by Thomas Pakenham Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels