Journalist LAURIE GARRETT has recently returned from Zaire, where many people have died due to the spread of the Ebola virus. She is the author of the new book, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). It explores the emergence of new infectious viruses like AIDS and Ebola, and the new strains of known diseases that are resistant to many treatments. She has been a science reporter for NPR, New York Newsday, Omni, and other publications.
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