Infectious disease books?

June 28, 2009 10:50 AM

What are the best recent books on emerging infectious diseases?

I recently read The Coming Plague (1994) but the suggestions the author made for handling future public health crises were outdated. Are there any recent books that make practical suggestions for how we should respond to future pandemics?

posted by msharp to science & nature (3 comments total)

Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health & Security in Question is what you're looking for, I think.

another suggestion: Infectious Disease: A Scientific American Reader provides an excellent overview of the current research & possible strategies for dealing with pandemics.
posted by jammy at 11:15 AM on June 28

Laurie Garrett has a more recent book, Betrayal of Trust, which is from 2001. Definitely recommend.
posted by Maias at 1:43 PM on June 28

This TED talk by Nathan Wolfe is about how his project is attempting to find pandemics at the points where they cross from animals to humans in the third world.
posted by slow graffiti at 4:12 PM on June 28