Plague: A Story of Science, Rivalry, and the Scourge That Won't Go Away - Hardcover

Marriott, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805066802 ISBN 13: 9780805066807

Verlag: Metropolitan Books, 2003

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A history of the bubonic plague describes the outbreak in 1894 Hong Kong and the fierce competition between Alexandre Yersin and Shibasaburo Kitasato to discover its source, noting other outbreaks while citing factors that could lead to a lethal epidemic in the future. 25,000 first printing.

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Edward Marriott is the author of Savage Shore (0-8050-5556-8) and The Lost Tribe (0-8050-6449-4), a New York Times Best Travel Book. A recipient of the Thomas Cook and Banff Awards, he lives in London, where he contributes regularly to the BBC, the Times, and Esquire magazine.

Edward Marriott is the author of Savage Shore (0-8050-5556-8) and The Lost Tribe (0-8050-6449-4), a New York Times Best Travel Book. A recipient of the Thomas Cook and Banff Awards, he lives in London, where he contributes regularly to the BBC, the Times, and Esquire magazine.

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From Plague:
By Wednesday evening eight people were suddenly dead, although speculation had pumped this figure to nearer one hundred. To every death there was a common theme: the afflicted were all young, or at least in early middle-age. Soon there was a growing crowd outside Surat's New Civil Hospital. Wards were close to capacity, the wail of ambulance sirens was audible across town. In the main lobby a huge concrete concourse, with rusty splashes of betel phlegm along the walls—crowds were fighting to get to the drug counters. From the balcony above, a line of doctors scanned the melee: dressed head to toe in white, their faces masked, only their dark eyes visible. "As if the deaths were not bad enough," said Dr. Shailendra Vajpeyee, "no one had any idea of the cause." An emergency meeting was called. Senior doctors, surgeons and administrators argued furiously. One said it was dengue fever, another a mutant strain of malaria. A third carried news from a nearby hospital, where two more people had died, both with the same symptoms. Finally, into a room suddenly silent, one of the doctors spoke softly, with certainty. "It's the plague."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Metropolitan Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0805066802
• ISBN 13: 9780805066807
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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