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In this tale of spiritualism versus science, a killer influenza strikes a Navajo reservation in Arizona. The government doctor blames a virus carried by mice, while the local health agent blames revengeful spirits. Both men are Indians.
Bad Medicine
A Novel
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336 pages
- Release Date
4 May 1999
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Summary
Dr. Push Foster takes a 2-year job at the Lukachukai Health Station with no thought that he will soon be plunged into a medical mystery and crisis- the outbreak of a pneumonia-like illness whose terrible swiftness makes it almost impossible to treat. And most mysteriously all the victims have been Navajo, and young. With contacts at the CDC in atlanta, push calls in all the expert help he can. But the scientific answers to what is eventually identified as the rodent-borne hanta virus are unsa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553377996 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 055337799X |
| Author: | Ron Querry |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 1999 |
| Weight: | 456g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
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Ron Querry
Ron Querry, of Choctaw, Scot & German ancestry, has a
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