The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug Resistant Bacteria
Authors: Mark J. Plotkin, Michael Shnayerson Manufacturer: Little, Brown Keywords: Popular Drugs ISBN: 0316713317
Book description It wasn't too long ago that modern antibiotics seemed to have conquered bacteria. Threatening bacteria, doctors proclaimed, were on their way out.Not exactly. In THE KILLERS WITHIN, Michael Shnayerson and Mark Plotkin reveal the terrifying truth: that bacteria have evolved, have outwitted doctors, and are now on the ascendancy. Quietly, a medical crisis has been brewing, as laboratories and doctors frantically race to develop new drugs and new means to combat bacteria that, via aggressive evolution, have zigged when medicine zagged. Bacteria that disintegrate your skin; bacteria that clog your lungs; bacteria that result in golf-ball-size abscesses-all these and more make appearances in THE…
Book review: This is an important book This is a serious book about a very serious subject-the escalating arms race between humans and disease-causing microbes. The bad news is that we're losing, making the emergence of resistant disease… Buy this book at the airport bookstore. Get on an airplane and travel across the continent; say, from Portland, Oregon to Albany, New York. Turn on the overhead light, ignore your jabbering seatmate… |
