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A Planet of VIRUSES Carl Zimmer The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London ...

CARL ZIMMER writes about science for the New York Times and other publications and is the author of eight books, including Paras ...

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Contents Foreword by Judy Diamond and Charles Wood INTRODUCTION “A Contagious Living Fluid”: Tobacco Mosaic Virus OLD COMPANIONS ...

Predicting the Next Plague Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Ebola The Long Goodbye Smallpox EPILOGUE The Alien in the Water ...

Foreword Viruses wreak chaos on human welfare, affecting the lives of almost a billion people. They have also played major roles ...

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Introduction “A Contagious Living Fluid” Tobacco Mosaic Virus Fifty miles southeast of the Mexican city of Chihuahua is a dry, b ...

species of viruses in the lungs. But only 10 percent of those species bore any close kinship to any virus ever found before. The ...

alcohol to the filtered fluid, and it would remain infective. Heating the fluid to near boiling did it no harm. Beijerinck soake ...

OLD COMPANIONS ...

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The Uncommon Cold Rhinovirus Around 3,500 years ago, an Egyptian scholar sat down and wrote the oldest known medical text. Among ...

molecules, called cytokines, which attract nearby immune cells. Those immune cells then make us feel awful. They create inflamma ...

The diversity of human rhinoviruses makes them a very difficult target to hit. A drug or a vaccine that attacks one protein on t ...

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Looking Down from the Stars Influenza Virus Influenza. If you close your eyes and say the word aloud, it sounds lovely. It would ...

infect humans. Many birds carry the flu without getting sick. Rather than infecting their airways, flu viruses typically infect ...

has never circulated among humans before, no one has any defenses that could slow the new strain’s spread. Reassortment is impor ...