PLAGUES AND THE PARADOX OF PROGRESS: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways

Explores the paradox in our fight against infectious disease: the world is getting healthier in ways that should make us worry. Bollyky visits China and Kenya to illustrate how dramatic declines in plagues have affected national economies. Whether the peril or promise of progress prevails, he explains, depends on what we do next. Well illus.