In this fully revised third edition of the award-winning original, here are the gripping stories of mankind's struggles against deadliest diseases in human history--including malaria, leprosy and cholera--updated to reflect new medical and social developments such as the continuing ravages of AIDS around the world, the bioterror threat posed by smallpox eradication, and an all-new chapter on the Ebola crisis. Illustrated with more than fifty reproductions of photographs, newspaper cartoons, public health posters, and the like, Invisible Enemies is an intense and intriguing mix of history, biography, and biology.

Author Biography

Jeanette Farrell, as a girl, worked on weekends at a tuberculosis sanatorium in Kentucky founded by her father. After graduating from college, she volunteered for a leprosy relief agency in India. She now works as a doctor in Seattle, Washington, where she lives with her husband and two children.