Full name: Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues

Author: Frank Ryan Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, Health, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316763066 0316763063

A renowned authority on diseases, presents a radical theory about the origin of deadly microbes in a book that takes us into the "hot zones" of today's most dangerous viral outbreaks, then into the research labs and hospitals where doctors and scientists are risking their lives trying to control them. AIDS, Ebola, "mad cow disease," "flesh-eating" viruses...Today's newspapers are full of articles about new plagues and viruses. Where do these new viruses come from? Why do new plagues arise? Could there be -- will there be -- a lethal and incurable Virus X that spreads as easily as the common cold? Similar books: Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC by Joseph B. McCormick Secret Agents by Madeline Drexler The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett Spillover by David Quammen The Devil's Flu by Pete Davies Influenza by Jeremy Brown Virus Hunter by C. J. Peters Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes Superbug by Maryn McKenna The Family That Couldn't Sleep by D. T. Max Rabid by Bill Wasik The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington Pandemic by Sonia Shah Pale Rider by Laura Spinney Beating Back the Devil by Maryn McKenna Killer Germs by Barry E. Zimmerman The Blue Death by Robert D. Morris A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer The Medical Detective by Sandra Hempel