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Biography of resistance : the epic battle between people and pathogens / Muhammad H. Zaman, Ph. D.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 304 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062862976
  • 0062862979
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Contents:
What we're up against -- Fifty million dead -- Time and space -- Friends in far places -- Near the seed vault -- Keys to Karachi -- War and peace -- From the phages of history -- Sulfa and the war -- Mold juice -- Tablets from tears -- The new pandemic -- The man in the blue Mustang -- Honeymoon -- Mating bacteria -- S is for Soviet -- The Navy boys -- From animals to humans -- The Norwegian salmon -- Closer to Sydney than to Perth -- A classless problem -- The stubborn wounds of war -- Counting the dead -- Clues in the sewage -- X is for extensive -- Too much or too little? -- Visa not required -- The dry pipeline -- New ways to do old business -- A three-hundred-year-old idea -- Spoonful of sugar -- Conflict inside the cells -- Security or service? -- One world, one health -- Bankers, doctors, and diplomats.
Summary: "Superbugs, born of antibiotic resistance, are a growing global health crisis. Award-winning educator and researcher at Boston University Muhammad Zaman, Ph. D. tells the story about how we got here and what we must do to combat this threat that connects us all"-- Provided by publisher.
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Award-winning Boston University educator and researcher Muhammad H. Zaman provides a chilling look at the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, explaining how we got here and what we must do to address this growing global health crisis.



In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the first known case in the U.S. of a person who died of an infection resistant to every antibiotic available. Her death is the worst nightmare of infectious disease doctors and public health professionals. While bacteria live within us and are essential for our health, some strains can kill us. As bacteria continue to mutate, becoming increasingly resistant to known antibiotics, we are likely to face a public health crisis of unimaginable proportions. "It will be like the great plague of the middle ages, the influenza pandemic of 1918, the AIDS crisis of the 1990s, and the Ebola epidemic of 2014 all combined into a single threat," Muhammad H. Zaman warns.

The Biography of Resistance is Zaman's riveting and timely look at why and how microbes are becoming superbugs. It is a story of science and evolution that looks to history, culture, attitudes and our own individual choices and collective human behavior. Following the trail of resistant bacteria from previously uncontacted tribes in the Amazon to the isolated islands in the Arctic, from the urban slums of Karachi to the wilderness of the Australian outback, Zaman examines the myriad factors contributing to this unfolding health crisis--including war, greed, natural disasters, and germophobia--to the culprits driving it: pharmaceutical companies, farmers, industrialists, doctors, governments, and ordinary people, all whose choices are pushing us closer to catastrophe.

Joining the ranks of acclaimed works like Microbe Hunters, The Emperor of All Maladies, and Spillover, A Biography of Resistance is a riveting and chilling tale from a natural storyteller on the front lines, and a clarion call to address the biggest public health threat of our time.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Superbugs, born of antibiotic resistance, are a growing global health crisis. Award-winning educator and researcher at Boston University Muhammad Zaman, Ph. D. tells the story about how we got here and what we must do to combat this threat that connects us all"-- Provided by publisher.

What we're up against -- Fifty million dead -- Time and space -- Friends in far places -- Near the seed vault -- Keys to Karachi -- War and peace -- From the phages of history -- Sulfa and the war -- Mold juice -- Tablets from tears -- The new pandemic -- The man in the blue Mustang -- Honeymoon -- Mating bacteria -- S is for Soviet -- The Navy boys -- From animals to humans -- The Norwegian salmon -- Closer to Sydney than to Perth -- A classless problem -- The stubborn wounds of war -- Counting the dead -- Clues in the sewage -- X is for extensive -- Too much or too little? -- Visa not required -- The dry pipeline -- New ways to do old business -- A three-hundred-year-old idea -- Spoonful of sugar -- Conflict inside the cells -- Security or service? -- One world, one health -- Bankers, doctors, and diplomats.

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