Was the 2003 SARS outbreak a warning of deadly epidemics to come? Acclaimed author and journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld was on the spot when the disease was discovered. His taut, thriller-like account tells the compelling story of a lethal microbe that learnt to jump between species - from animal to human - with brutal efficiency, killing a large number of its victims and terrifying millions around the world. China Syndrome takes us on a gripping ride from the bedside of one of the first Chinese victims, via cutting-edge labs ...
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Was the 2003 SARS outbreak a warning of deadly epidemics to come? Acclaimed author and journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld was on the spot when the disease was discovered. His taut, thriller-like account tells the compelling story of a lethal microbe that learnt to jump between species - from animal to human - with brutal efficiency, killing a large number of its victims and terrifying millions around the world. China Syndrome takes us on a gripping ride from the bedside of one of the first Chinese victims, via cutting-edge labs where the researchers race to identify the new illness, to conference rooms at the World Health Organization as officials desperately try to determine the true extent of the epidemic - despite a scandalous cover-up by the Chinese government. As Greenfeld reveals, the outbreak of SARS - and, now, the convergence of a deadly strain of Avian Flu - is part of a pattern of evidence suggesting that the next pandemic will also emerge from Asia. It could be more virulent and difficult to contain that anything we've ever encountered. And it's long overdue. Is humanity ready?
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Good book, needed for grandsons school project...it did the trick.
stillwaggon
Apr 3, 2007
The arrested epidemic
"You are here because of your ancestors' immune systems." Thus begins the non-fiction China Syndrome. Greenfeld, as the editor of the Asian edition of Time Magazine, was on the spot and with good sources when the SARS epidemic started in China. As a public health professional, I found his step-by-step, chronological account very satisfying. SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) killed 11 percent of its eight thousand victims and spread quickly to 32 countries via airline travel. That good public health measures, already known in the nineteenth century, stopped the epidemic before it became the first great pandemic of the century is very encouraging, given that such outbreaks (and worse) are inevitable. Technical accounts are available (World Health Organization, Harvard Magazine), but this is a good introduction. Although the account is given in a calm, non-sensation style, a few pages are not for the faint of heart. Highly recommended.
