Laurie Garrett

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Laurie Garrett

Laurie Garrett (* 1951 in Los Angeles ) is an American science journalist. In 1996 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for a series of articles in the Newsday newspaper describing the course of the Ebola fever epidemic in Zaire . She has authored a number of books on disease .

Life

Garrett studied biology and was mainly concerned with bacteriology and immunology.

Works

  • The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. 1995
  • Betrayal of Trust. The Collapse of Global Public Health. Hyperion, New York 2000.
    • The end of health. Report on the medical condition of the world. Siedler, Berlin 2001; ISBN 3-442-76101-8 .
  • I HEARD THE SIRENS SCREAM: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks. 2012, ISBN 978-1469910109

Individual evidence

  1. Personal homepage
  2. 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Explanatory Journalism . Retrieved November 2, 2008.
  3. http://www.amazon.com/Laurie-Garrett/e/B000AQ46GS