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Review : Apocalypse now

30 August 1997

At last: a book for the coffee table on “biohazard, disease and
pestilence”. Dip into Peter Brookesmith’s Future Plagues and frighten yourself
with tales of superbugs rampaging round the globe. Published by Blandford,
£16.99, ISBN 0713726911.

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