The Invisible Enemy by Dorothy Crawford, Oxford University Press,
£14.99, ISBN 0198503326
WHO would have predicted that viruses and virologists would ever star in
major movies and best-selling books? Outbreak and its cousins gave
everyone a crash course in the stark reality that infectious diseases are an
increasing threat to human health.
We had become complacent. The advent and widespread use of antibiotics in the
middle of the 20th century certainly created a sense of optimism. At last
doctors seemed to have the ultimate control of infectious diseases within their
grasp. But fifty years later this was clearly not so.…
