Level 4 Virus Hunters Of The Cdc
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Level 4 Virus Hunters Of The Cdc
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Author : Joseph McCormick, M.D
language : en
Publisher: Graymalkin Media
Release Date : 2020-04-01
Level 4 Virus Hunters Of The Cdc written by Joseph McCormick, M.D and has been published by Graymalkin Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-01 with Medical categories.
"[McCormick has] been face-to-face with Ebola in Africa.... He... worked for days inside a mud hut that was smeared with Ebola blood, on his knees among people who were crashing and bleeding out." —Richard Preston, The Hot Zone Now with a new foreword by the authors about the novel Coronavirus pandemic. Sublimely equipped to survive, to propagate, to conquer, the virus is neither really alive nor really dead. Its dimensions are measured in molecules. It attacks by dismantling its human targets cell by cell. An ancient adversary, resident on this earth long before our evolutionary ancestors arrived, the virus is without conscience or compassion, without mind. It enjoys the advantages of countless numbers and infinite time. It is a being almost too simple to understand and too basic to outwit. We are locked in a war with the virus. Each battle kills some of us. The battles have many names: Ebola, Lassa fever, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, AIDS . . . Dr. Joseph McCormick and Dr. Susan Fischer-Hoch have met them all; and they have fought them all. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC is their story. It is an intense, personal account of more than a quarter of a century on the front lines—in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that McCormick was instrumental in creating at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, as well as in the most primitive places on the planet, where the local climate, terrain, and politics can kill as easily as any disease. In the villages of Zaire and Sudan, the ghettoes and rain forest of Brazil, and the nomadic settlements of northern Pakistan, the cutting edge of science meets the deadly universe of viral disease. The elite corps of virus hunters who dare to penetrate these realms combine the unquenchable curiosity and raw guts of intrepid explorers with the training of top-level scientists, the hunch-playing passion of master sleuths, and the compassion of truly great physicians. Told in intimate detail by two of the world's best-known virologists—colleagues, collaborators, husband and wife— Level 4 is a journey across the world and into many strange new worlds: from the seductive beauty of equatorial Africa—a limitless reservoir of infection—to the confines of the all-but-invisible field of the electron microscope. While other books have offered hot zones, sick monkeys, and grim statistics, Level 4 brings home from the world of the virus the human stories of those who lived, and those who died.
Level 4
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Author : Joseph B. McCormick
language : en
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Release Date : 1999
Level 4 written by Joseph B. McCormick and has been published by Barnes & Noble this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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Panic In Level 4
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Author : Richard Preston
language : en
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
Release Date : 2008
Panic In Level 4 written by Richard Preston and has been published by Random House Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Science categories.
Dramatic true stories about the frightening forces and constructive discoveries that are currently roiling and reordering our world.
Level 4
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Author : Joseph B. McCormick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Level 4 written by Joseph B. McCormick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Communicable diseases categories.
Virus Hunter
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Author : C. J. Peters
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date : 1997
Virus Hunter written by C. J. Peters and has been published by Doubleday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Epidemiologists categories.
The commander of the army virology unit that battled the Ebola virus in "The Hot Zone--and the current Chief of Special Pathogens at the Centers for Disease Control--teams up with the bestselling coauthor of "MindHunter to chronicle his extraordinary thirty-year career fighting deadly viruses. From Central and South America to a deadly outbreak of a mystery virus in the American Southwest, from fieldwork in Egypt and the mountains of Kenya to immobilizing an army unit to stop a gut-wrenching outbreak of Ebola only miles from Washington, D.C., "Virus Hunter takes us backstage in the inevitable clash between biology and human lives. Because of new, emerging viruses, and the return of old, "vanquished" ones for which vaccines do not exist, there remains a very real danger of a new epidemic that could, without proper surveillance and early intervention, spread worldwide virtually overnight. And the possibility of foreign countries or terrorist groups using deadly airborne viruses that are easily obtained rather than unwieldy explosives looms larger than ever in the future. High-octane science writing at its most revealing and best, "Virus Hunter is a thrilling first-person account of what it is like to be a warrior in the Hot Zone.
The Hot Zone
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Author : Richard Preston
language : en
Publisher: Corgi
Release Date : 1995
The Hot Zone written by Richard Preston and has been published by Corgi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Ebola virus disease categories.
Imagine a killer with the infectiousness of the common cold and power of the Black Death. Imagine something so deadly that it wipes out 90% of those it touches. Imagine an organism against which there is no defence. But you don't need to imagine. Such a killer exists: it is a virus and its name is Ebola. The Hot Zone tells what happens when the unthinkable becomes reality: when a deadly virus, from the rain forests of Africa, crosses continents and infects a monkey house ten miles from the White House. Ebola is that reality. It has the power to decimate the world's population. Try not to panic. It will be back. There is nothing you can do...
Virus Ground Zero
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Author : Edward Regis
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1998-07
Virus Ground Zero written by Edward Regis and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07 with Fiction categories.
An acclaimed science writer takes readers behind the scenes at the Centers for Disease Control to tell the story of an engrossing odyssey across the viral frontier.
The Hot Zone
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Author : Richard Preston
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2012-03-14
The Hot Zone written by Richard Preston and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-14 with Health & Fitness categories.
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus. Now a mini-series drama starring Julianna Margulies, Topher Grace, Liam Cunningham, James D'Arcy, and Noah Emmerich on National Geographic. A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.
No Time To Lose A Life In Pursuit Of Deadly Viruses
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Author : Peter Piot
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2012-05-28
No Time To Lose A Life In Pursuit Of Deadly Viruses written by Peter Piot and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-28 with Medical categories.
"An invaluable portrait of the evolution of international health in recent decades." —William Bynum, Wall Street Journal When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, “There’s no future in infectious diseases. They’ve all been solved.” Fortunately, Piot ignored him, and the result has been an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, as a young man, Piot was sent to Central Africa as part of a team tasked with identifying a grisly new virus. Crossing into the quarantine zone on the most dangerous missions, he studied local customs to determine how this disease—the Ebola virus—was spreading. Later, Piot found himself in the field again when another mysterious epidemic broke out: AIDS. He traveled throughout Africa, leading the first international AIDS initiatives there. Then, as founder and director of UNAIDS, he negotiated policies with leaders from Fidel Castro to Thabo Mbeki and helped turn the tide of the epidemic. Candid and engrossing, No Time to Lose captures the urgency and excitement of being on the front lines in the fight against today’s deadliest diseases.
Avian Reservoirs
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Author : Frédéric Keck
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-17
Avian Reservoirs written by Frédéric Keck and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-17 with Social Science categories.
After experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all invested in various techniques to mitigate future pandemics involving myriad cross-species interactions between humans and birds. In some locations microbiologists allied with veterinarians and birdwatchers to follow the mutations of flu viruses in birds and humans and create preparedness strategies, while in others, public health officials worked toward preventing pandemics by killing thousands of birds. In Avian Reservoirs Frédéric Keck offers a comparative analysis of these responses, tracing how the anticipation of bird flu pandemics has changed relations between birds and humans in China. Drawing on anthropological theory and ethnographic fieldwork, Keck demonstrates that varied strategies dealing with the threat of pandemics—stockpiling vaccines and samples in Taiwan, simulating pandemics in Singapore, and monitoring viruses and disease vectors in Hong Kong—reflect local geopolitical relations to mainland China. In outlining how interactions among pathogens, birds, and humans shape the way people imagine future pandemics, Keck illuminates how interspecies relations are crucial for protecting against such threats.