Dancing Matrix How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses

Name: Dancing Matrix How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses
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ISBN: 9780679730835

ISBN-10: 0679730834

ISBN-13: 9780679730835

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Authors: Robin Marantz Henig

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Even as humanity reels beneath the assault of AIDS, epidemiologists are gearing themselves up for the plague's successor. It might be dengue fever, whose carrier, the Asian tiger mosquito, has recently appeared in the United States, or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which has been transmitted by contaminated human growth hormone. The next pandemic might be caused by any of a dozen viruses that were once confined to other species or territories but now place human beings at risk as we increasingly cross their boundaries. Updated to include the latest research and developments, this fascinating and sometimes unsetting book sums up all that we currently know about viruses: what they are, how they…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Robin Marantz Henig is the author of six books, including "A Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses". She routinely writes about science & medicine for such publications as the "New York Times Magazine" & "USA Today". She lives in Maryland.