New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers

A medical ecologist examines the threat posed by disease-carrying parasites and insects and identifies the conditions--miracle drugs, destruction of natural controls--that have encouraged them to flourish.

First sentence: Some time ago, while at London's Heathrow Airport on the way to Burma, I had occasion to use what the English genteelly refer to as the public convenience, and there I was startled to find a government poster warning the traveler of malaria, symbolized by a Godzilla-sized mosquito pouncing on a helpless world.

Year

1981

Language

English

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Editions

4

Pages

224

ISBN

9780393304268

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