Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Chapter 1 Black Swans and Red Alerts 7
Chapter 2 Annals of Public Health 21
Chapter 3 White Coats and Worn Shoes 30
Chapter 4 The Threat Matrix 49
Chapter 5 The Natural History of Germs 57
Chapter 6 The New World Order 64
Chapter 7 Means of Transmission: Bats, Bugs, Lungs, and Penises 72
Chapter 8 Vaccines: The Sharpest Arrow in Our Quiver 80
Chapter 9 Malaria, AIDS, and TB: Lest We Forget 98
Chapter 10 Gain of Function and Dual Use: The Frankenstein Scenario 111
Chapter 11 Bioterror: Opening Pandora's Box 125
Chapter 12 Ebola: Out of Africa 144
Chapter 13 SARS and MERS: Harbingers of Things to Come 159
Chapter 14 Mosquitoes: Public Health Enemy Number One 178
Chapter 15 Zika: Expecting the Unexpected 205
Chapter 16 Antimicrobials: The Tragedy of the Commons 215
Chapter 17 Fighting the Resistance 237
Chapter 18 Influenza: The King of Infectious Diseases 254
Chapter 19 Pandemic: From Unspeakable to Inevitable 268
Chapter 20 Taking Influenza off the Table 286
Chapter 21 Battle Flan for Survival 299
Acknowledgments 321
Index 327