Books

Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. New York: Penguin, 1995. Long but fascinating account of emerging and returning epidemic diseases and the people who travel around the world to investigate them.

Joseph B. McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch, Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC. Atlanta: Turner Publishing, 1996. McCormick, former chief of the CDC's Special Pathogens Branch, and Fisher-Hoch, his wife and fellow infectious disease investigator, describe their experiences in stalking the world's most deadly viruses, including the Ebola fever virus and HIV.

Andrew Nikiforuk, The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Epidemics, Plagues and Other Scourges. London: Phoenix, 1993. Describes the past history and present activity of epidemic diseases such as plague, malaria, smallpox, influenza, and tuberculosis.

Christopher Wills, Yellow Fever, Black Goddess. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley/Helix, 1996. Tells how interactions between humans and disease-causing microbes have shaped the evolution of...