The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

Garrett's nine-hundred-page prophecy from 1994 catalogues the conditions being manufactured for pandemic: deforestation, poverty, antibiotic overuse, the collapse of public health infrastructure. She visited every outbreak she could reach. The science is impeccable and the warning is explicit. The book was praised, shortlisted, and ignored by every government that should have acted on it.