Virus Hunters 2
Virus Hunters 2

Author: Bobby Akart

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-08

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781087890005

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We always want to believe history happened to those in the past. Many aspects of historical events were unforeseen. However, not this one. Warnings had been issued, yet the world was unprepared for the invisible enemy that threatened to kill us all. WELCOME TO THE NEXT GLOBAL WAR From the imaginative mind of international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, comes a series ripped from today's headlines. Meet the Virus Hunters, the disease detectives on the front line of a never-ending battle to save humanity from viruses one-billionth our size. "Scientifically accurate, top notch entertainment and electrifying excitement ..." Deadly outbreaks of diseases make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small, subtle, and in faraway places. When it arrives, it spreads across oceans and continents, like the sweep of nightfall, killing millions, or even billions. The hunt for a silent killer continues in this heart-pounding, page-turning thriller. Not even a doctor's white coat is protection from this virus that's one-billionth our size. Dr. Harper Randolph searches for evidence and her gut tells her the answers lie in one of the most secretive places on the planet - China. "Characters are well developed, a plot that is intriguing and a novel that educates the reader at the same time. Most highly recommended! "- Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer With the help of a new partner, she follows the clues and enters the mysterious world of China's underground where both allies and enemies await. The stakes get higher the closer she gets to Patient Zero. Will she find the origin of this novel virus threatening the planet? Will she be silenced by those whose secrets resulted in a global pandemic in the recent past? Bobby Akart has delivered up-all-night thrillers to readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide. His new Virus Hunters novels will give you pause and remind you that we're in a global war for survival against an unseen foe. "Bobby Akart writes a scientific thriller better than anyone else." SPECIAL DEDICATION: Finally, this series is dedicated to the Virus Hunters - the disease detectives, shoe-leather epidemiologists of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service who work tirelessly to keep these deadly infectious diseases from killing us all. Thank you!

Virus Hunters 2
Virus Hunters 2

Author: Bobby Akart

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-06

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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We always want to believe history happened to those in the past. Many aspects of historical events were unforeseen. However, not this one. Warnings had been issued, yet the world was unprepared for the invisible enemy that threatened to kill us all. WELCOME TO THE NEXT GLOBAL WAR From the imaginative mind of international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, comes a series ripped from today's headlines. Meet the Virus Hunters, the disease detectives on the front line of a never-ending battle to save humanity from viruses one-billionth our size. "Scientifically accurate, top notch entertainment and electrifying excitement ..." Deadly outbreaks of diseases make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small, subtle, and in faraway places. When it arrives, it spreads across oceans and continents, like the sweep of nightfall, killing millions, or even billions. The hunt for a silent killer continues in this heart-pounding, page-turning thriller. Not even a doctor's white coat is protection from this virus that's one-billionth our size. Dr. Harper Randolph searches for evidence and her gut tells her the answers lie in one of the most secretive places on the planet - China. "Characters are well developed, a plot that is intriguing and a novel that educates the reader at the same time. Most highly recommended!" Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer With the help of a new partner, she follows the clues and enters the mysterious world of China's underground where both allies and enemies await. The stakes get higher the closer she gets to Patient Zero. Will she find the origin of this novel virus threatening the planet? Will she be silenced by those whose secrets resulted in a global pandemic in the recent past? Bobby Akart has delivered up-all-night thrillers to readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide. His new Virus Hunters novels will give you pause and remind you that we're in a global war for survival against an unseen foe. "Bobby Akart writes a scientific thriller better than anyone else." SPECIAL DEDICATION: Finally, this series is dedicated to the Virus Hunters - the disease detectives, shoe-leather epidemiologists of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service who work tirelessly to keep these deadly infectious diseases from killing us all. Thank you!

Cancer Virus Hunters
Cancer Virus Hunters

Author: Gregory J. Morgan

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2022-08-02

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 142144402X

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Traces the history of the study of tumor viruses and its role in driving breakthroughs in cancer research. Worldwide, approximately one-fifth of human cancers are caused by tumor viruses, with hepatitis B virus and HPV being the leading culprits. While the explosive growth in molecular biology in the late twentieth century is well known, the role that the study of tumor viruses has played in driving many of the greatest breakthroughs is not. Without the insights gained by studying tumor viruses, many significant theoretical advancements over the last four decades in cellular and molecular biology would not have been made. More practically, the study of tumor viruses has saved thousands, if not millions, of lives. In Cancer Virus Hunters, Gregory J. Morgan traces the high points in the development of tumor virology, from Peyton Rous's pioneering work on chicken tumors in 1909 to the successful development of an HPV vaccine for cervical cancer in 2006. Morgan offers a novel approach to understanding the interconnectedness of a long series of biomedical breakthroughs, including those that led to seven Nobel prizes. Among other advances, Morgan describes and contextualizes the science that prompted the discoveries of reverse transcriptase, RNA splicing, the tumor suppressor p53, the vaccine for hepatitis B, and the HIV test. He also explores how "cancer virus hunters" have demonstrated the virtue of beginning with a simple system, even when investigating a complex disease like cancer. Based on extensive archival research and over fifty interviews with experts, Cancer Virus Hunters is a tour de force summarizing a century of research to show how discoveries made with tumor viruses came to dominate the contemporary understanding of cancer. By showcasing the scientists themselves, the book makes for an unusually accessible journey through the history of science. It will be of interest to biomedical professionals—especially in oncology, hepatology, and infectious disease—in addition to historians of science and anyone interested in cancer research.

Virus Hunter
Virus Hunter

Author: Rick Emmer

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 1438123574

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Presents the history of deadly viruses, their effects on people, and the research of scientists to discover and develop treatments against them.

Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC

Author: Joseph McCormick, M.D

Publisher: Graymalkin Media

Published: 2020-04-01

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 1631682997

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"[McCormick has] been face-to-face with Ebola in Africa.... He... worked for days inside a mud hut that was smeared with Ebola blood, on his knees among people who were crashing and bleeding out." —Richard Preston, The Hot Zone Now with a new foreword by the authors about the novel Coronavirus pandemic. Sublimely equipped to survive, to propagate, to conquer, the virus is neither really alive nor really dead. Its dimensions are measured in molecules. It attacks by dismantling its human targets cell by cell. An ancient adversary, resident on this earth long before our evolutionary ancestors arrived, the virus is without conscience or compassion, without mind. It enjoys the advantages of countless numbers and infinite time. It is a being almost too simple to understand and too basic to outwit. We are locked in a war with the virus. Each battle kills some of us. The battles have many names: Ebola, Lassa fever, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, AIDS . . . Dr. Joseph McCormick and Dr. Susan Fischer-Hoch have met them all; and they have fought them all. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC is their story. It is an intense, personal account of more than a quarter of a century on the front lines—in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that McCormick was instrumental in creating at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, as well as in the most primitive places on the planet, where the local climate, terrain, and politics can kill as easily as any disease. In the villages of Zaire and Sudan, the ghettoes and rain forest of Brazil, and the nomadic settlements of northern Pakistan, the cutting edge of science meets the deadly universe of viral disease. The elite corps of virus hunters who dare to penetrate these realms combine the unquenchable curiosity and raw guts of intrepid explorers with the training of top-level scientists, the hunch-playing passion of master sleuths, and the compassion of truly great physicians. Told in intimate detail by two of the world's best-known virologists—colleagues, collaborators, husband and wife— Level 4 is a journey across the world and into many strange new worlds: from the seductive beauty of equatorial Africa—a limitless reservoir of infection—to the confines of the all-but-invisible field of the electron microscope. While other books have offered hot zones, sick monkeys, and grim statistics, Level 4 brings home from the world of the virus the human stories of those who lived, and those who died.

In Loeffler's Footsteps – Viral Genomics in the Era of High-Throughput Sequencing
In Loeffler's Footsteps – Viral Genomics in the Era of High-Throughput Sequencing

Author:

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0128125993

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In Loeffler's Footsteps – Viral Genomics in the Era of High-Throughput Sequencing, Volume 99, the latest in the Advances in Virus Research series, contains new information on the topic, with chapters covering Loeffler 4.0 – diagnostic metagenomics, Detection of a novel orthobunyavirus by metagenomic analysis – the situation after five years, New Squirrel and Rodent Viruses Detected by NGS, Astroviridae – A Growing Family, New Leaves in the Growing Pestivirus Tree, New BTV Serotypes and no End?, and The recently discovered Bokeloh Bat Lyssavirus - Evidence for its continued transmission in Europe. First published in 1953, this series covers a diverse range of in-depth reviews, providing a valuable overview of the current field of virology. The series is a valuable resource for information on all topics of virus research, from bacteriophages to human viruses, with this volume focusing on genomics. - Contains contributions from leading authorities - Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field - Features a diverse range of virology topics

Virus Mania
Virus Mania

Author: Torsten Engelbrecht

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-04-22

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 3752629789

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"The book 'Virus Mania' has been written with the care of a master-craftsman, courageously evaluating the medical establishment, the corporate elites and the powerful government funding institutions." Wolfgang Weuffen, MD, Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Epidemiology "The book 'Virus-Wahn' can be called the first work in which the errors, frauds and general misinformations being spread by official bodies about doubtful or non-virus infections are completely exposed." Gordon T. Stewart, MD, professor of public health and former WHO advisor - - - The population is terrified by reports of so-called COVID-19, measles, swine flu, SARS, BSE, AIDS or polio. However, the authors of "Virus Mania," investigative journalist Torsten Engelbrecht, Dr. Claus Köhnlein, MD, Dr. Samantha Bailey, MD, and Dr. Stefano Scoglio, BSc PhD, show that this fearmongering is unfounded and that virus mayhem ignores basic scientific facts: The existence, the pathogenicity and the deadly effects of these agents have never been proven. The book "Virus Mania" will also outline how modern medicine uses dubious indirect lab tools claiming to prove the existence of viruses such as antibody tests and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The alleged viruses may be, in fact, also be seen as particles produced by the cells themselves as a consequence of certain stress factors such as drugs. These particles are then "picked up" by antibody and PCR tests and mistakenly interpreted as epidemic-causing viruses. The authors analyze all real causes of the illnesses named COVID-19, avian flu, AIDS or Spanish flu, among them pharmaceuticals, lifestyle drugs, pesticides, heavy metals, pollution, malnutrition and stress. To substantiate it, the authors cite dozens of highly renowned scientists, among them the Nobel laureates Kary Mullis, Barbara McClintock, Walter Gilbert and Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet as well as microbiologist and Pulitzer Prize winner René Dubos, and it presents more than 1,400 solid scientific references. The topic of "Virus Mania" is of pivotal significance. Drug makers and top scientists rake in enormous sums of money and the media boosts its audience ratings and circulations with sensationalized reporting (the coverage of the "New York Times" and "Der Spiegel" are specifically analyzed).The enlightenment about the real causes and true necessities for prevention and cure of illnesses is falling by the wayside. For more reviews, see the older edition of "Virus Mania"

Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk

Author: Charlotte Jacobs

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 0199334412

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The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working on an influenza vaccine--for which he never fully got credit--to his seminal creation of the Polio vaccine, up through his later work to find a cure for AIDS.

The Virus Hunters
The Virus Hunters

Author: Joseph B. McCormick

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 9780747534884

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Ebola, Lassa fever, HIV/AIDS, anthrax, leprosy, meningitis - Drs Joseph McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch have confronted, studied, probed and fought them all, case by case and on an epidemic scale. This is their story of a quarter-of-a-century on the front lines of the struggle to hold the narrow line separating humankind from what might well be the true inheritors of the Earth: viruses.;This book combines accounts of cutting-edge medical research with dramatic stories of survival in some of the most remote places on Earth, where the climate, the terrain and the politics can kill just as surely as any disease.