Title: I should have read this years ago
Product review: Garrett's descripition of the 1995 Ebola epidemic in (then) Zaire tracesthe interplay between simple public health measures and the horror of oneof the most feared diseases on the planet. Encouragingly, she shows thatsuch epidemics are beatable. Discouragingly, she also shows that nobody whowith power to implement solutions actually gives a damn. But the horrorsof Ebola fade somewhat before the horrors of the collapse of healthcarein Russia. Garrett interlaces statistics with personal stories but itsthe stats which I find more horrifying. Its easy to dismiss one badstory as just that, but the stats show the deep horror of a failedstate. This is a big book and I'm less than half way through, but thisis a book which everyone should read ... particularly those whothinks that "the market" can solve all problems.
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