RX for Survival

<b>A <i>New York Times</i> reporter's eye-opening call to arms in the fight against epidemic diseases</b> <p/> We face a great choice. Philip Hilts a prizewinning journalist for the <i>New York Times</i> and the <i>Washington Post</i> argues in this report on global epidemic diseases that the world's leading nations now have the means to win the fight against the coming plague--but they must act quickly or face grave consequences. <p/>Based on firsthand visits to disease hot spots around the world and in-depth interviews with leading researchers and other medical pioneers working on the ground who are the major forces pushing for a coordinated world campaign Hilts tells the inspiring stories of remarkably simple but powerful new approaches that are leading to astonishing success.