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Lyme:

The First Epidemic of Climate Change
  • ISBN-13: 9781610918442
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By Mary Beth Pfeiffer
  • Price: AUD $67.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 14/06/2018
  • Format: Hardback (100.00mm X 100.00mm) 304 pages Weight: 580g
  • Categories: Popular medicine & health [VFD]
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""Superbly written and researched."" 'Booklist

""Builds a strong case."" 'Kirkus

Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia, and Australia.

Mary Beth Pfeiffer shows how we have contributed to this growing menace, and how modern medicine has underestimated its danger. She tells the heart-rending stories of families destroyed by a single tick bite, of children disabled, and of one woman's tragic choice after an exhaustive search for a cure.

Pfeiffer also warns of the emergence of other tick-borne illnesses that make Lyme more difficult to treat and pose their own grave risks. Lyme is an impeccably researched account of an enigmatic disease, making a powerful case for action to fight ticks, heal patients, and recognize humanity's role in a modern scourge.
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1. Ticks, Rising
Chapter 2. ""Invisible Assassin""
Chapter 3. An Ancient Bug Revives
Chapter 4. A Disease, Minimized
Chapter 5. ""Little Armored Tanks""
Chapter 6. Faulty Tests
Chapter 7. An Indestructible Pathogen?
Chapter 8. Not Just Lyme
Chapter 9. Childhood Lost
Chapter 10. Lyme Takes Flight
Chapter 11. A Lyme-free World

Selected References
Index
 
"A superbly written piece of investigative reporting, Lyme is as macabre as a Stephen King horror novel—except the topic is all the more frightening because it's real."
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