Virus-X : tracking the new killer plagues : out of the present and into the future

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Ryan, Frank, 1944-

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The author takes the reader into the "hot zones" of today's most dangerous outbreaks, then into the research laboratories and hospitals, where he spotlights the scientists and doctors who are riski...

The author takes the reader into the "hot zones" of today's most dangerous outbreaks, then into the research laboratories and hospitals, where he spotlights the scientists and doctors who are risking their lives to contain them. In telling this global story, he uncovers a frightening pattern -- and concludes that new, deadlier diseases are now waiting to emerge. Why do such plagues arise? Where do new viruses come from? Could there be -- will there be -- a Virus X, an incurable virus, as lethal as Ebola, spread as easily as the common cold? He has posed these questions to leading virus experts around the world, and here, combined with his own research, he presents a radical theory about the origins of these deadly microbes. Rejecting the assumption that new plagues arise by chance, he sees in them the purposeful programming of powerful evolutionary forces -- a process he calls "aggressive symbiosis."

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