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Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We are most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA...
2) Virals
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Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage 'sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's...
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From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman. The Fireman is coming. Stay cool. No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading...
8) Amnesia
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English
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Writing the biography of a cyber criminal who released a virus into Australia's prison system and allowed hundreds of asylum seekers and prisoners to escape, left-wing journalist Felix Moore struggles to convey the hacker's intentions as a political protest against Australia's relationship with the United States. Includes reading-group guide.
"From the two-time Booker Prize winner: a masterful, exceedingly timely new novel--at once dark, suspenseful,...
9) Reaper
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A killer virus which travels on the Internet is discovered after nine lawyers die in a Boston conference room. Dr. Samantha Craig of the U.S. Army races to locate it before the launch of a TV-via-the-Internet network which could infect millions of people.
10) HIV essentials
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Burlington, MA
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
7th ed.
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xii, 292 p. ; 17 cm.
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English
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Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
550 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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As the alien Xenovirus reaches Britain, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, now gifted with extraordinary longevity, joins with Alan Turing to set up a special organization, the Order of the Silver Helix, to outmaneuver the terrifying mutations of the virus in Britain.
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"IAt an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a...
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George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane. He has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases but also to "improve people": make them stronger, make them able to heal more quickly...and make them compliant to his will.
Frank Hartman is also a brilliant virologist, working for the government's ultra-secret biohazard agency. He has discovered how to neutralize Galen's
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xi, 244 p. : ill., maps, charts, photos. ; 23 cm.
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English
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"AIDS was first described in 1981 and just under three years later the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was discovered. Confirming that HIV causes AIDS--now accepted by virtually all scientists--took rather longer. But where did HIV come from? When did it first infect us? How did it manage to spread so widely?"--Book jacket.
15) Virus
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Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
413 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Fifth edition.
Physical Desc
2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
All editions of this textbook have been written according to the authors' philosophy that the best approach to teaching introductory virology is by emphasizing shared principles. Studying the common steps of the viral reproductive cycle illustrated with a set of representative viruses, and considering mechanisms by which these viruses can cause disease, provides an integrated overview of the biology of these infectious agents. Such knowledge cannot...
17) Wildcard
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Very short introductions volume 174
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 149 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Yet the outlook today is a little brighter. Although HIV/ AIDS continues to be a pressing public health issue the epidemic has stabilised globally, and it has become evident it is not,...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 245 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Using the history of the Conficker computer worm as a centerpiece, the author discusses the war raging over the Internet between those who want to exploit it and those who aim to protect it.
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