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- catalog 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.".
- catalog alternative "Plague race".
- catalog contributor b12712059.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index.".
- catalog extent "302 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0805066802 (hc.)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Metropolitan Books,".
- catalog spatial "China Hong Kong".
- catalog subject "614.5/732/095125 21".
- catalog subject "Plague China Hong Kong History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Plague History.".
- catalog subject "RC172 .M374 2003".
- catalog title "Plague : a story of science, rivalry, and the scourge that won't go away / Edward Marriott.".
- catalog title "Plague race".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".