Sworn enemy: Our war with deadly infections. Osterholm M., Olshaker M.

In the modern world, people, animals and cargoes more easily move around the planet, but the same achievements due to which our infrastructure has reached such effectiveness made epidemics and even pandemias practically inevitable. As shown by Covid-19 outbreaks, Mers and Ebola hemorrhagic fever, we are catastrophically not ready for their consequences. What can and should be done to protect yourself from the sworn enemy of mankind? Based on the latest achievements of medical science, cases from practice, field research and the epidemiological experience inherited to us at such a high price, the book “sworn enemy” tells about what steps will allow humanity to at least partially protect themselves from infectious diseases. The authors demonstrate that we can find ourselves in reality in which antibiotics no longer act, acts of bioterrorism have become everyday life, and the risk of pandemium is continuously growing. Only clearly realizing the problems facing us, we will prevent the transformation of unthinkable into the inevitable.