Breathless : the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus /
Sciences have warned for decades that the next big pandemic would be causes by a changeable new virus, very possibly a coronavirus, but such warning were ignored for political or economic reasons. Quammen takes readers inside the frantic international effort to understand and control SARS-CoV-2 (aka...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2022].
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| Summary: | Sciences have warned for decades that the next big pandemic would be causes by a changeable new virus, very possibly a coronavirus, but such warning were ignored for political or economic reasons. Quammen takes readers inside the frantic international effort to understand and control SARS-CoV-2 (aka COVID-19), peering over the shoulders of the scientists who led the chase and found the way to fight the virus. He shows how new viruses emerge from animals into humans as we disrupt wild ecosystems, and how these viruses adapt to the human hosts, sometimes causing global catastrophe. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 406 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781982164362 1982164360 |