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China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic
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China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Greenfeld, Karl Taro

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In riveting and dramatic fashion, Greenfeld takes readers to the front lines of the SARS crisis and raises disturbing questions about when--and how--the world will face the next deadly (and inevitable) viral mutation.

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  • Title China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic
  • Author Greenfeld, Karl Taro
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial
  • Date 2007-01-09
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0060587237_used
  • ISBN 9780060587239 / 0060587237
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.39 x 1.18 in (20.35 x 13.69 x 3.00 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Library of Congress subjects SARS (Disease) - China - History, Avian influenza - China - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 614.592

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First line

FANG LIN, TWENTY-FOUR, TOLD ME HE HAD AWAKENED TO THE USUAL cacophony: the bleat of a truck reversing; the steady, metallic thump of a jackhammer; the whining buzz of a steel saw; the driving in of nails; the slapping down of bricks; the irregular thumping-like sneakers in a dryer-of a cement mixer.

From the rear cover

When the SARS virus broke out in China in January 2003, Karl Taro Greenfeld was the editor of Time Asia in Hong Kong, just a few miles from the epicenter of the outbreak. After vague, initial reports of terrified Chinese boiling vinegar to "purify" the air, Greenfeld and his staff soon found themselves immersed in the story of a lifetime.

Deftly tracking a mysterious viral killer from the bedside of one of the first victims to China's overwhelmed hospital wards--from cutting-edge labs where researchers struggle to identify the virus to the war rooms at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva--China Syndrome takes readers on a gripping ride that blows through the Chinese government's effort to cover up the disease . . . and sounds a clarion call warning of a catastrophe to come: a great viral storm potentially more deadly than any respiratory disease since the influenza of 1918.