Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues - Brossura

Ryan, Frank

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ISBN 10: 0316763063 ISBN 13: 9780316763066

Casa editrice: Back Bay Books, 1998

Riassunto

An account of humankind against microbe investigates the nature of plague viruses from diverse parts of the world and their implications, and presents a new theory about the origins of these deadly diseases

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Recensione:

"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

L'autore:

Frank Ryan is the author of Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told, Darwin's Blind Spot and Virolution. He is a consultant physician, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He has pioneered the groundbreaking evolutionary biology concepts of "viral symbiosis" and "genomic creativity".

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• Editore: Back Bay Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0316763063
• ISBN 13: 9780316763066
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 452