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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.
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'' . . ....offers a gripping outline of ‘public health in reverse’ and how close societies have come to unleashing biomedical havoc . . .'' --Kurt Loft, Tampa Tribune, September 24, 2002
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- PublisherContinuum
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0756756987
- ISBN 13 9780756756987
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages214
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