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Nonfiction 2009 global nav open menu global nav close menu. Reviews covering new diseases that have emerged since the 1960s, garrett provides a dramatic and panoramic portrait of the changing balance of power between man and microbes. The narrative tone is similar to kafkas, especially in the trial, whose individual sentences potentially have multiple. It is a compelling and wellwritten book that i wholeheartily recommend.
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