Plague Makers (Investigations) [Paperback]

Wendy Barnaby (Author)

Book Description

Series: Investigations | Publication Date: June 1999

The truth about how the biological warfare programs of the worlds largest countries are developing, testing, and using the most lethal substances known to man and the challenge of containing the threat.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A readable and well-researched account, from a skilled science writer, of what one day might befall large numbers of us."
--The Times Literary Supplement

"...even more relevant than it was in past editions..."
--Bookwatch, December 2002

"...offers a gripping outline of 'public health in reverse' and how close societies have come to unleashing biomedical havoc on each other."
--The Tampa Tribune, 9/24/02 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Wendy Barnaby is a science writer and broadcaster. She has worked as a journalist in Sweden and the UK, where she broadcasts regularly for the BBC and the ABC. From 1992-95 she chaired the Association of British Science Writers. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: Vision (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883319854
• ISBN-13: 978-1883319854
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,103,426 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely useful resource for this emerging issue, January 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Plague Makers (Investigations) (Paperback)

Not sure why Amazon says this isn't yet published; I bought a copy in Europe last fall (98). This is an excellent book which requires no technical pre-knowledge, yet quickly illustrates ways of spotting BW programs and also how newer biotechnologies (gene splicing etc.) make this a critical problem that more rogue players will have access to. It also contains numerous historical examples which were heretofore not well known. This should be on the bookshelf of every policymaker and citizen concerned with e.g. Gulf War syndrome, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lots of information but poorly written., November 4, 1999

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This review is from: Plague Makers (Investigations) (Paperback)

This could have been a 5 star book. The book is packed with very interesting and well documented information. However, the book is riddled with errors. I found so many spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors that the book was actually painful to read. I could not read 2 pages without finding a word missing from a sentence. I can only assume that the book was not edited before publication. Without these problems, this book would have been great!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The anthrax scare of 2001 is only the tip of the iceberg, December 7, 2002

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This review is from: Plague Makers: The Secret World of Biological Warfare (Paperback)

The Plague Makers appears in a fully updated third edition to offer a subject even more relevant than it was in past editions: the secret world of biological warfare. The anthrax scare of 2001 is only the tip of the iceberg in lab biological weapons making, author Wendy Barnaby reveals: various chapters cover governments around the world using labs to produce deadly combinations of diseases  and the creation of superviruses resistant to treatment.