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100 1 a| Marriott, Edward,d| 1966-=| ^A393609;

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245 10 a| Plague :b| a story of science, rivalry, and the scourge that won't go away /c| Edward Marriott.;

250 a| 1st American ed.;

260 a| New York :b| Metropolitan Books,c| 2003.;

300 a| 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Originally published: The plague race : United Kingdom : Picador, 2002.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index.;

520 a| In this recounting of medical and human history, Marriott takes us back to Hong Kong in the summer of 1894, when a diagnosis of plague brought two top scientists to the island--Alexandre Yersin, a lone, maverick French bacteriologist, and his eminent rival, the Japanese Shibasaburo Kitasato. Marriott interweaves his narrative of their competition to discover the plague's source with scenes of the scourge's persistence: California in 1900, when plague arrived in the United States; Surat, India, in 1994, where torrential floods drowned millions of rats, causing the worst outbreak in seventy years; and New York City, some time in the future, where there is a rat for every human being, a diminishing budget for pest control, and an emerging strain of plague that is resistant to antibiotics.--From publisher description.;

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Plague : a story of science, rivalry, and the scourge that won't go away / Edward Marriott.

Author/creator	Marriott, Edward, 1966-
Format	Book
Edition	1st American ed.
Publication Info	New York : Metropolitan Books, 2003.
Description	302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Plague--History. Plague--China. --Hong Kong. --History. --19th century. Plague--history. --China. --Hong Kong. Disease Outbreaks--history. History of Medicine. History, 19th Century.

Uniform title	Plague race
Abstract	In this recounting of medical and human history, Marriott takes us back to Hong Kong in the summer of 1894, when a diagnosis of plague brought two top scientists to the island--Alexandre Yersin, a lone, maverick French bacteriologist, and his eminent rival, the Japanese Shibasaburo Kitasato. Marriott interweaves his narrative of their competition to discover the plague's source with scenes of the scourge's persistence: California in 1900, when plague arrived in the United States; Surat, India, in 1994, where torrential floods drowned millions of rats, causing the worst outbreak in seventy years; and New York City, some time in the future, where there is a rat for every human being, a diminishing budget for pest control, and an emerging strain of plague that is resistant to antibiotics.--From publisher description.
General note	Originally published: The plague race : United Kingdom : Picador, 2002.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index.
Acquisitions source	Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection.
LCCN	2002026325
ISBN	0805066802
ISBN	9780805066807

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