Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues Out of the Present and into the Future - Couverture rigide

Ryan, Frank

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316763837 ISBN 13 : 9780316763837

Editeur : Little, Brown & Company, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Ryan Frank

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"A very readable and disturbing book. Dr Ryan writes well in a difficult technical field, weaving the technicalities of scientific history, medicine, molecular biology, and evolution into the human narratives of a sequence of epidemics, with victims, heroes and villains. John RG Turner. --New York Times Book Review

Extremely well written... Frank Ryan has the page-turning and spine-chilling ability of a good novelist. Matt Ridley. --The Sunday Telegraph

With gripping prose Frank Ryan shows that it can happen here. [We} have no magic immunity to contagious diseases that kill quickly, both young and old. Dr Ryan's imaginative theory of the role of killer viruses in nature's order may be the key to humanity's avoiding a catastrophic plague. Michael J Behe --Author of Darwin's Black Box

Présentation de l'éditeur :

AIDS, Ebola, "mad cow disease," "flesh-eating" viruses...Today's newspapers are full of articles about new plagues & viruses. Where do these new viruses come from? Why do new plagues arise? Could there be - will there be - a lethal & incurable Virus X that spreads as easily as the common cold? The author, a renowned authority on diseases, presents a radical theory about the origin of deadly microbes in a book that takes us into the "hot zones" of today's most dangerous viral outbreaks, then into the research labs & hospitals where doctors & scientists are risking their lives trying to control them.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown & Company
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0316763837
• ISBN 13: 9780316763837
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 8