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Virus X

Tracking the New Killer Plagues

by Frank Ryan, MD

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On Sale

Sep 23, 1998

Page Count

448 Pages

Publisher

Back Bay Books Logo

ISBN-13

9780316763066

Genre

Nonfiction / Medical / Epidemiology

Description

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 and hospitals where doctors and scientists are risking their lives trying to control them.

AIDS, Ebola, “mad cow disease,” “flesh-eating” viruses…Today’s newspapers are full of articles about new plagues and viruses. Where do these new viruses come from? Why do new plagues arise? Could there be — will there be — a lethal and incurable Virus X that spreads as easily as the common cold?