Virusphere : from common colds to Ebola epidemics
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- ISBN: 9781633886049
- ISBN: 1633886042
- ISBN: 9780008296704
- ISBN: 0008296707
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278 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher: Guilford, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Contents / Notes
General Note: | "Originally published in the English language by Williams Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd., 2019" -- title verso. "Why we need the viruses that plague us" -- Book jacket. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | What are viruses? -- Coughs and sneezes spread diseases -- A plague upon a plague -- Every parent's nightmare -- A bug versus a virus -- A coincidental paralysis -- Deadly viruses -- An all-American plague -- Lurker viruses -- How flue viruses reinvent themselves -- A lesson from a Machiavellian virus -- The mystery of Ebola -- The Mercurial nature of the Zika virus -- A taste for the liver -- Warts and all -- Lilliputian giants -- Are viruses alive? -- Inspiring terror, and delight -- The ecology of the oceans -- The virosphere -- The origins of the Placental mammals -- Viruses in the origins of life -- The fourth domain? |
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