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2024.
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"For millions of Americans, Donald McNeil was a comforting voice when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. He was a regular reporter on The New York Times's popular podcast The Daily and told listeners early on to prepare for the worst. He'd covered public health for twenty-five years and quickly realized that an obscure virus in Wuhan, China, was destined to grow into a global pandemic rivaling the 1918 Spanish flu. Because of his clear advice, a generation...
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Very short introductions volume 276
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English
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Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this Very Short Introduction, Dorothy Crawford demonstrates from their discovery and the unravelling of their intricate structures, how clever these entities really are.
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
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[2022]
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English
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"A leading microbiologist tackles the scientific and sociopolitical impact of viruses in twelve striking essays. Invisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own bodies, viruses flourish-with the power to shape not only our health, but our social, political, and economic systems. Drawing on his expertise in microbiology, Joseph Osmundson brings readers under the microscope to understand the structure and mechanics of viruses and...
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Español
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Más allá de lo que percibimos a simple vista, palpita un microcosmos que lo abarca todo: muchos de sus habitantes colonizan nuestros cuerpos sin hacernos daño, como parte de la flora normal de distintos órganos, mientras que otros pueden causarnos enfermedades de leves a graves, e incluso la muerte.
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The present manual has been designed in accordance with the recommendations of New MSVE (Minimum Standards of Veterinary Education) course outline for B.V. Sc. & A.H. graduates. The text features detailed experimental protocols with comprehensive sections on materials and preparations for all exercises. This comprehensive manual is a reference guide to student which covers various aspects of Veterinary Virology ranging from filtration techniques,...
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Viruses encapsulates for the lay reader the enormous scientific and medical contributions that have come from the field of virology. Dr. Arnold Levine presents the story of the scientists behind our current understanding of these infective agents and explains how that knowledge has helped us comprehend life at both the molecular and the human level. Many intriguing facets of viral behavior are explored, as Dr. Levine provides a clear account of their...
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Skyhorse Publishing
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[2020]
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English
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"Since the dawn of the human race, medicine men and physicians have wondered about the cause of disease, especially what we call 'contagions,' numerous people ill with similar symptoms, all at the same time. Does humankind suffer these outbreaks at the hands of an angry god or evil spirit? A disturbance in the atmosphere, a miasma? Do we catch the illness from others or from some outside influence? As the restriction of our freedoms continues, more...
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It isn't easy to be a phage. First, what is a phage? A phage is a virus that infects Bacteria. To succeed, a phage must encounter, recognize, and enter a particular type of bacterial cell, then coerce it to make more phages rather than more cells. Of course, the cell resists this hostile takeover in numerous ways, all of which the successful phage overcomes. The triumphant phage then, proceeds with its replicative business. In this engaging book,...
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"Winner of the 2016 Postgraduate Textbook Prize, Royal Society of Biology" Joshua S. Weitz is associate professor of biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
When we think about viruses we tend to consider ones that afflict humans-such as those that cause influenza, HIV, and Ebola. Yet, vastly more viruses infect single-celled microbes. Diverse and abundant, microbes and the viruses that infect them are found in oceans, lakes, plants, soil,...
11) Big farms make big flu: dispatches on infectious disease, agribusiness, and the nature of science
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Monthly Review Press
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[2016]
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English
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Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry - each animal genetically identical to the next - packed together in megabarns, grown out in a matter of months, then slaughtered, processed and shipped to the other side of the globe. Less well known are the deadly...
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Sterling
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[1999]
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English
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Personal account of the author's work in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that he created at the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta battling such viruses as Ebola, Lassa fever, Crimean Congo Hermorrhagic Fever, and AIDS and searching for weapons with which to combat them.
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We cannot eradicate Covid-19, but humans can help the virus grow to be more benign.
To get there, we must enter the Transitional Phase, when Covid-19 transforms from pandemic to another common cold coronavirus. Understanding what a virus wants and how a virus views the world helps. With knowledge of existing human coronaviruses and basic viral/host interactions, we come to understand that herd protection-not herd immunity-is the goal. Immunity is...
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Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding, and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter the celebrities, the advocates, the lobbyists, and the funders behind them, who take advantage of scientists' reluctance to provide easy answers, flooding the media with misleading or incorrect claims about...
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Zika Virus has wreaked havoc in Brazil in recent times and is rapidly raising the specter of a global pandemic. It has also resurfaced in India. In June 2017, three individuals in Ahmedabad were, found infected. The ensuing panic was, compounded by lack of knowledge and, worse, by conflicting and confusing information.
The Secret Life of Zika Virus cuts through the noise and misinformation to present an in-depth, comprehensive biography of Zika Virus...
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An expose of the activities of a government biological research lab on New York's Plum Island describes the facility's routine work with exotic viruses and discusses its link to national safety and security interests.
"Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds- and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the planet. This book blows the lid off the stunning true nature and checkered history...
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From one of the world's top virologists, the definitive guide to understanding-and navigating-COVID-19.
Three years on, COVID is clearly here to stay. So what do we do now? Drawing on his expertise as one of the world's top virologists, Dr. Paul Offit helps weary readers address that crucial question in this brief, definitive guide.
As a member of the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee and a former member of the Advisory Committee for Immunization...
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"RFK Jr. exposes the decades of lies."-Luc Montagnier, Nobel laureate
From the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19.
"Gain-of-function" experiments are conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible coronavirus pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive...
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The incredible true story of the most banned documentary in history.
Researching the controversy arising after the release of the viral phenomenon known as Plandemic, the most seen and censored documentary in history, an investigative journalist sets out to disprove and debunk claims made throughout the film. Instead, the journalist opens a Pandora's Box to witness firsthand an underworld of corruption, lies, and the darkest of unsolved mysteries.
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With contributions from eminent doctors, scientists, and experts in their fields, Lies My Gov't Told Me offers a comprehensive look at the coronavirus pandemic—where we are today, how we got here, and what's on the horizon. Challenging the mainstream government-pharma-media narrative, the chapters in this book will not only outrage readers but will also inform and give readers hope.
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