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Virusphere : from common colds to ebola epidemics / Frank Ryan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Guilford, Connecticut : Prometheus, [2019]Copyright date: ♭2019Description: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • FOR
ISBN:
  • 9781633886056
  • 1633886050
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.91 23
LOC classification:
  • QR364 .R93 2019
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. What Are Viruses? -- 2. Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases -- 3. A Plague Upon a Plague -- 4. Every Parent's Nightmare -- 5. A Bug Versus a Virus -- 6. A Coincidental Paralysis -- 7. Deadly Viruses -- 8. An All-American Plague -- 9. Lurker Viruses -- 10. How Flu Viruses Reinvent Themselves -- 11. A Lesson from a Machiavellian Virus -- 12. The Mystery of Ebola -- 13. The Mercurial Nature of the Zika Virus -- 14. A Taste for the Liver -- 15. Warts and All -- 16. Lilliputian Giants -- 17. Are Viruses Alive? -- 18. Inspiring Terror -- and Delight -- 19. The Ecology of the Oceans -- 20. The Virosphere -- 21. The Origins of the Placental Mammals -- 22. Viruses in the Origins of Life -- 23. The Fourth Domain? -- Bibliography and References -- Index.
Item type: 4 Week Loan
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"Originally published in the English language by Williams Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd., ... ♭2019" -- title page verso.

"Why we need the viruses that plague us"--Book cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. What Are Viruses? -- 2. Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases -- 3. A Plague Upon a Plague -- 4. Every Parent's Nightmare -- 5. A Bug Versus a Virus -- 6. A Coincidental Paralysis -- 7. Deadly Viruses -- 8. An All-American Plague -- 9. Lurker Viruses -- 10. How Flu Viruses Reinvent Themselves -- 11. A Lesson from a Machiavellian Virus -- 12. The Mystery of Ebola -- 13. The Mercurial Nature of the Zika Virus -- 14. A Taste for the Liver -- 15. Warts and All -- 16. Lilliputian Giants -- 17. Are Viruses Alive? -- 18. Inspiring Terror -- and Delight -- 19. The Ecology of the Oceans -- 20. The Virosphere -- 21. The Origins of the Placental Mammals -- 22. Viruses in the Origins of Life -- 23. The Fourth Domain? -- Bibliography and References -- Index.

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