The Demon in the Freezer: The Terrifying Truth About the Threat from Bioterrorism - Rilegato

Preston, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0755312171 ISBN 13: 9780755312177

Casa editrice: Headline Book Publishing, 2003

Riassunto

In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in the USA, the Western world had to deal with a new threat: bioterrorism. In October 2001 a series of anthrax attacks through the American postal system casued chaos and fear. But there was a far greater danger that had government security advisers around the world even more alarmed: smallpox. In this account of what happened and could still happen, Richard Preston reveals the horror faced by victims of smallpox, raises questions about what happened to the smallpox viruses that were kept in storage after the disease was "eradicated" in 1979, and shows just how easy it would be to create new strains of smallpox that would be able to overcome any vaccination, leaving the population defenceless.

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Recensione:

This book will give you nightmares ... He turns a story about science and medicine into a theme-park ride of a thriller (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

Fascinating, frightening and important. It reads like a thriller but the demons are real (Jonathan Weiner, author of The Beak of the Finch)

As exciting as the best thrillers, yet scarier by far (Publishers Weekly)

Lucid and unsettling, and no one will read it without taking biological weapons much more seriously (Financial Times)

A story of terrifying duplicity (Sunday Times)

Descrizione del libro:

The terrifying true story of the threat from modern bioterrorism, as told by the international bestselling author Richard Preston

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• Editore: Headline Book Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0755312171
• ISBN 13: 9780755312177
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320