Table of Contents
Prologue 1
Chapter 1 What We're Up Against 5
Chapter 2 Fifty Million Dead 11
Chapter 3 Time and Space 21
Chapter 4 Friends in far Places 29
Chapter 5 Near the Seed Vault 37
Chapter 6 Keys to Karachi 41
Chapter 7 War and Peace 47
Chapter 8 From the Phages of History 59
Chapter 8 Sulfa and the War 67
Chapter 10 Mold Juice 75
Chapter 11 Tablets from Tears 85
Chapter 12 The New Pandemic 91
Chapter 13 The Man In The Blue Mustang 99
Chapter 14 Honeymoon 107
Chapter 15 Mating Bacteria 119
Chapter 16 S is for Soviet 125
Chapter 17 The Navy Boys 137
Chapter 18 From Animals to Humans 143
Chapter 19 The Norwegian Salmon 151
Chapter 20 Closer to Sydney Than to Perth 159
Chapter 21 A Classless Problem 165
Chapter 22 The Stubborn Wounds of War 177
Chapter 23 Counting the Dead 185
Chapter 24 Clues in the Sewage 191
Chapter 25 X is for Extensive 197
Chapter 26 Too Much or Too Little? 201
Chapter 27 Visa not Required 207
Chapter 28 The Dry Pipeline 215
Chapter 29 New Ways to Do Old Business 219
Chapter 30 A Three-Hundred-Year-Old Idea 229
Chapter 31 Spoonful of Sugar 235
Chapter 32 Conflict Inside the Cells 239
Chapter 33 Security or Service? 245
Chapter 34 One World, One Health 251
Chapter 35 Bankers, Doctors, and Diplomats 257
Epilogue 263
Acknowledgments 267
Notes 271
Index 293