Title: Overkill
Review: The first seventy pages of, Overkill, obey the title doling out gritty details of the increasing microbial reistance to antibiotics: what we are doing to to make things worse, how microbes form resistances, and so on, all set against a background of historic trends in infectious disease. The rest of the book focuses on the last six words of the subtitle, "what we can do about it." If you are interested in herbal remedies, the importance of hydration, strategic uses of vitamins, child care tips, potential pathogen perils in the home, and recipes for natural cleansers and sprays, you could find this interesting. I didn't. The epilogue sums up with well-worn advice, "The future brings uncetainty, but with it, tremendous hope." If your prinicpal interest is the microbes and their resistances, this is not the book for you. Try, Beasts of the Earth, The Antibiotic Paradox, The Coming Plague, The Killers Within, and/or Microcosmos.
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