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The Life Scientific Virus Hunters
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Author : Anna Buckley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-01-07
The Life Scientific Virus Hunters written by Anna Buckley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The interviews make sobering reading, a reminder of all the deadly viruses that have threatened global health, and why for the scientists working on the front line in the war against viruses, the arrival of Covid-19 came as no surprise. Among the contributors to this all-too-timely book are: Jeremy Farrar, before he became Director of the Wellcome Trust, worked in an Infectious Diseases Hospital in Vietnam. He was on the frontline tackling SARS and nine months later a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu, H5N1. Peter Piot was at the forefront of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. He was the first to identify HIV in Africa. It took him fifteen years to persuade the world that it was also a heterosexual disease. Later as Executive Director of UN AIDS he fought for years to get the UN to take the threat of HIV seriously. Jonathan Ball studies how viruses operate at the molecular level, hoping to find their Achilles' heel and so develop effective vaccines. During the West Africa Ebola epidemic, he studied how the genome of the Ebola virus evolved as it spread from Guinea to Liberia and Sierra Leone. He has shown that as this virus (which more happily lives in bats) infects more humans, it becomes ever more infectious. Wendy Barclay seeks to understand how viruses are able to jump from animals to humans and why some viruses are so much more dangerous to humans than others. Most Londoners had no idea they were infected during the Swine Flu pandemic of 2009. The Bird Flu epidemic in Asia claimed thousands of lives Kate Jones is a bat specialist who works on how ecological changes and human behaviour accelerate the spread of animal viruses into humans. Bats have been infected with coronaviruses for more than 10,000 years.
Virus Hunter
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Author : Rick Emmer
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2006
Virus Hunter written by Rick Emmer and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Epidemiologists categories.
Presents the history of deadly viruses, their effects on people, and the research of scientists to discover and develop treatments against them.
Virus Hunters Library Of Science Ed
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Author : Greer Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Virus Hunters Library Of Science Ed written by Greer Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Physicians categories.
Virus Hunters
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Author : Greer Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Virus Hunters written by Greer Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Microbiology categories.
A Planet Of Viruses
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Author : Carl Zimmer
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-10-06
A Planet Of Viruses written by Carl Zimmer and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Science categories.
For years, scientists have been warning us that a pandemic was all but inevitable. Now it's here, and the rest of us have a lot to learn. Fortunately, science writer Carl Zimmer is here to guide us. In this compact volume, he tells the story of how the smallest living things known to science can bring an entire planet of people to a halt--and what we can learn from how we've defeated them in the past. Planet of Viruses covers such threats as Ebola, MERS, and chikungunya virus; tells about recent scientific discoveries, such as a hundred-million-year-old virus that infected the common ancestor of armadillos, elephants, and humans; and shares new findings that show why climate change may lead to even deadlier outbreaks. Zimmer’s lucid explanations and fascinating stories demonstrate how deeply humans and viruses are intertwined. Viruses helped give rise to the first life-forms, are responsible for many of our most devastating diseases, and will continue to control our fate for centuries. Thoroughly readable, and, for all its honesty about the threats, as reassuring as it is frightening, A Planet of Viruses is a fascinating tour of a world we all need to better understand.
The Virus Hunters
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Author : Joseph B. McCormick
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 1996
The Virus Hunters written by Joseph B. McCormick and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Brazil categories.
The frontline of a terrible and continuous war is being fought against an enemy that knows no international boundaries and the authors have been fighting it for the last 25 years. This is the account of the battle against mankind's worst enemy, viruses.
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.
Virus Hunters
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Author : Amy Cherrix
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2024-09-10
Virus Hunters written by Amy Cherrix and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-10 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A propulsive nonfiction look at the elite squads of scientists, doctors, and infectious disease experts who guard the boundary between public health and pandemics and how they gather data via boots on the ground "shoe-leather epidemiology" in order to save lives. Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Deborah Heiligman! Picture a detective. What comes to mind? A fast-talking private eye, interrogating a suspect? Or Sherlock Holmes, in his deerstalker hat, discovering clues to catch a killer? Now imagine that the suspect isn't a person but a microscopic menace--a deadly virus or bacteria making people sick. What kind of detective does it take to nab a biological assassin, invisible to the naked eye? Just like detectives, epidemiologists--scientists who study how diseases emerge and spread--interview witnesses and gather clues to identify the cause of illness, locate those who are sick, and uncover the sources of outbreaks to stop them in their tracks. From a quickly spreading cholera outbreak in 1880s London, to a mystery illness in New Mexico that stumped investigators, to the development of the vaccines to fight COVID-19 and more, join acclaimed author Amy Cherrix on a journey to explore the past, present, and future of virus hunting as the world's greatest disease detectives race to crack the medical codes that lead to cures.
Virus Hunters
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Author : Williams Greer
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Virus Hunters written by Williams Greer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with categories.
The Life Scientific Detectives
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Author : Anna Buckley
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2020-08-18
The Life Scientific Detectives written by Anna Buckley and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Their work is changing the world we live in, but what do we really know about their lives beyond the lab? Based on interviews for the hit BBC Radio 4 series, The Life Scientific: Detectives reveals the life and work of some of the foremost scientists in the world, from Nobel laureates to the next generation of beautiful minds. Getting under their skin and into their minds, we find out what first inspired them and what motivates them to keep going. The detectives featured in this volume include: Sadaf Farooqi on what makes us fat; Nick Lane on the origin of life on earth; Sue Black on what you can learn from dead bodies; Tejinder Virdee on the search for the Higgs Boson; and Amoret Whitaker on how insects can help solve crimes.