Betrayal of Trust

This text takes readers around the world to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophies mark the death of public health and taken together form a terrifying portrait of real global disaster in the making. Public health is a bond between a government and its people and if either side betrays that trust the system is likely to collapse like a house of cards. Garrett illustrates how this trust has frayed and our global public health system has been systematically destroyed. With globalization, no person is safe from anti-biotic resistant superbugs, epidemics or biowar. Garrett takes us to India, where an outbreak of bubonic plague created international hysteria and to Zaire, where the deadly Ebola virus broke out in a filthy and completely unequipped hospital.