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Avian Reservoirs

Author : Frédéric Keck
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478007559
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Avian Reservoirs written by Frédéric Keck and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all invested in various techniques to mitigate future pandemics involving myriad cross-species interactions between humans and birds. In some locations microbiologists allied with veterinarians and birdwatchers to follow the mutations of flu viruses in birds and humans and create preparedness strategies, while in others, public health officials worked toward preventing pandemics by killing thousands of birds. In Avian Reservoirs Frédéric Keck offers a comparative analysis of these responses, tracing how the anticipation of bird flu pandemics has changed relations between birds and humans in China. Drawing on anthropological theory and ethnographic fieldwork, Keck demonstrates that varied strategies dealing with the threat of pandemics—stockpiling vaccines and samples in Taiwan, simulating pandemics in Singapore, and monitoring viruses and disease vectors in Hong Kong—reflect local geopolitical relations to mainland China. In outlining how interactions among pathogens, birds, and humans shape the way people imagine future pandemics, Keck illuminates how interspecies relations are crucial for protecting against such threats.

Level 4

Author : Joseph B. McCormick
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Level 4 written by Joseph B. McCormick and published by Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated.

Virus Hunter

Author : C.J. Peters
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0385485581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Virus Hunter written by C.J. Peters and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1998-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book The man who led the battle against Ebola in The Hot Zone teams up with the bestselling co-author of Mind Hunter to chronicle his extraordinary thirty-year career fighting deadly viruses. For three decades, Dr. C. J. Peters was on the front lines of our biological battle against “hot” viruses around the world. In the course of that career, he learned countless lessons about our interspecies turf wars with infectious agents. Called in to contain an outbreak of deadly hemorrhagic fever in Bolivia, he confronted the despair of trying to save a colleague who accidentally infected himself with an errant scalpel. Working in Level 4 labs on the Machupo and Ebola viruses, he saw time and again why expensive high-tech biohazard containment equipment is only as safe as the people who use it. Because of new, emerging viruses, and the return of old, “vanquished” ones for which vaccines do not exist, there remains a very real danger of a new epidemic that could, without proper surveillance and early intervention, spread worldwide virtually overnight. And the possibility of foreign countries or terrorist groups using deadly airborne viruses—the poor man’s nuclear arsenal—looms larger than ever. High-octane science writing at its best and most revealing, Virus Hunter is a thrilling first-person account of what it is like to be a warrior in the Hot Zone.

Cancer Virus Hunters

Author : Gregory J. Morgan
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421444011
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Cancer Virus Hunters written by Gregory J. Morgan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author tells a history of the study of cancer-causing viruses from the early twentieth century to the development of an HPV vaccine for cervical cancer in 2006. He profiles the "cancer virus hunters" who made breakthroughs in tumor virology"--

The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

Author : Anna Buckley
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474607470
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters written by Anna Buckley and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The interviews make sobering reading, a reminder of all the deadly viruses that have threatened global health, and why for the scientists working on the front line in the war against viruses, the arrival of Covid-19 came as no surprise. Among the contributors to this all-too-timely book are: Jeremy Farrar, before he became Director of the Wellcome Trust, worked in an Infectious Diseases Hospital in Vietnam. He was on the frontline tackling SARS and nine months later a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu, H5N1. Peter Piot was at the forefront of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. He was the first to identify HIV in Africa. It took him fifteen years to persuade the world that it was also a heterosexual disease. Later as Executive Director of UN AIDS he fought for years to get the UN to take the threat of HIV seriously. Jonathan Ball studies how viruses operate at the molecular level, hoping to find their Achilles' heel and so develop effective vaccines. During the West Africa Ebola epidemic, he studied how the genome of the Ebola virus evolved as it spread from Guinea to Liberia and Sierra Leone. He has shown that as this virus (which more happily lives in bats) infects more humans, it becomes ever more infectious. Wendy Barclay seeks to understand how viruses are able to jump from animals to humans and why some viruses are so much more dangerous to humans than others. Most Londoners had no idea they were infected during the Swine Flu pandemic of 2009. The Bird Flu epidemic in Asia claimed thousands of lives Kate Jones is a bat specialist who works on how ecological changes and human behaviour accelerate the spread of animal viruses into humans. Bats have been infected with coronaviruses for more than 10,000 years.

Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC

Author : Joseph McCormick, M.D
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
ISBN 13 : 1631682997
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC written by Joseph McCormick, M.D and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[McCormick has] been face-to-face with Ebola in Africa.... He... worked for days inside a mud hut that was smeared with Ebola blood, on his knees among people who were crashing and bleeding out." —Richard Preston, The Hot Zone Now with a new foreword by the authors about the novel Coronavirus pandemic. Sublimely equipped to survive, to propagate, to conquer, the virus is neither really alive nor really dead. Its dimensions are measured in molecules. It attacks by dismantling its human targets cell by cell. An ancient adversary, resident on this earth long before our evolutionary ancestors arrived, the virus is without conscience or compassion, without mind. It enjoys the advantages of countless numbers and infinite time. It is a being almost too simple to understand and too basic to outwit. We are locked in a war with the virus. Each battle kills some of us. The battles have many names: Ebola, Lassa fever, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, AIDS . . . Dr. Joseph McCormick and Dr. Susan Fischer-Hoch have met them all; and they have fought them all. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC is their story. It is an intense, personal account of more than a quarter of a century on the front lines—in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that McCormick was instrumental in creating at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, as well as in the most primitive places on the planet, where the local climate, terrain, and politics can kill as easily as any disease. In the villages of Zaire and Sudan, the ghettoes and rain forest of Brazil, and the nomadic settlements of northern Pakistan, the cutting edge of science meets the deadly universe of viral disease. The elite corps of virus hunters who dare to penetrate these realms combine the unquenchable curiosity and raw guts of intrepid explorers with the training of top-level scientists, the hunch-playing passion of master sleuths, and the compassion of truly great physicians. Told in intimate detail by two of the world's best-known virologists—colleagues, collaborators, husband and wife— Level 4 is a journey across the world and into many strange new worlds: from the seductive beauty of equatorial Africa—a limitless reservoir of infection—to the confines of the all-but-invisible field of the electron microscope. While other books have offered hot zones, sick monkeys, and grim statistics, Level 4 brings home from the world of the virus the human stories of those who lived, and those who died.

Virus Hunter

Author : Rick Emmer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438123574
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Virus Hunter written by Rick Emmer and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of deadly viruses, their effects on people, and the research of scientists to discover and develop treatments against them.

Virus Hunt

Author : Dorothy H. Crawford
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191654124
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Virus Hunt written by Dorothy H. Crawford and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural south east Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it was able to spread so widely. From hospital intensive care wards to research laboratories and the African rain forests, this is the wide-ranging story of a killer virus and a tale of scientific endeavour.

Inventing the AIDS Virus

Author : Peter H. Duesberg
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780895263995
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the AIDS Virus written by Peter H. Duesberg and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the political and financial forces that have shaped AIDS research, including the growing dissension within scientific ranks, the power politics among virologists, and other controversial issues

Understanding Viruses

Author : Teri Shors
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1284025926
Total Pages : 969 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Viruses written by Teri Shors and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Viruses continues to set the standard for the fundamentals of virology. This classic textbook combines molecular, clinical, and historical aspects of human viral diseases in a new stunning interior design featuring high quality art that will engage readers. Preparing students for their careers, the Third Edition greatly expands on molecular virology and virus families. This practical text also includes the latest information on influenza, global epidemiology statistics, and the recent outbreaks of Zika and Ebola viruses to keep students on the forefront of cutting-edge virology information. Numerous case studies and feature boxes illuminate fascinating research and historical cases stimulate student interest, making the best-selling Understanding Viruses the clear choice in virology. Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources (available to adopting instructors with course ID), and learning analytics reporting tools (available to adopting instructors with course ID).

The Viral Politics of Covid-19

Author : Vanessa Lemm
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981193942X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book The Viral Politics of Covid-19 written by Vanessa Lemm and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, economic, and political levels. The biolegal dimensions of our evolving understanding of “home” are analysed as the common thread linking the problem of zoonotic diseases and planetary health with that of geopolitics, biosecurity, bioeconomics and biophilosophies of the plant-animal-human interface. In doing so, the contributions collectively highlight the complexities, challenges, and opportunities for humanity, opening new perspectives on how to inhabit our shared planet. This volume will broadly appeal to scholars and students in anthropology, cultural and media studies, history, philosophy, political science and public health, sociology and science and technology studies.

Understanding Viruses (Second Edition)

Author : Teri Shors, PhD
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1449675883
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Viruses (Second Edition) written by Teri Shors, PhD and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Virus Hunting

Author : Robert C. Gallo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Virus Hunting written by Robert C. Gallo and published by . This book was released on 1991-05-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the discovery of AIDS and other notable discoveries, Gallo's investigation by the NIH, and provides a personal chronicle of the scientist's life.

Cryopolitics

Author : Joanna Radin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026233870X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Cryopolitics written by Joanna Radin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life. As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation. Technologies of cryopreservation support global food chains, seed and blood banks, reproductive medicine, and even the preservation of cores of glacial ice used to study climate change. In many cases, these practices of freezing life are an attempt to cheat death. Cryopreservation has contributed to the transformation of markets, regimes of governance and ethics, and the very relationship between life and death. In Cryopolitics, experts from anthropology, history of science, environmental humanities, and indigenous studies make clear the political and cultural consequences of extending life and deferring death by technoscientific means. The contributors examine how and why low temperatures have been harnessed to defer individual death through freezing whole human bodies; to defer nonhuman species death by freezing tissue from endangered animals; to defer racial death by preserving biospecimens from indigenous people; and to defer large-scale human death through pandemic preparedness. The cryopolitical lens, emphasizing the roles of temperature and time, provokes new and important questions about living and dying in the twenty-first century. Contributors Warwick Anderson, Michael Bravo, Jonny Bunning, Matthew Chrulew, Soraya de Chadarevian, Alexander Friedrich, Klaus Hoeyer, Frédéric Keck, Eben Kirksey, Emma Kowal, Joanna Radin, Deborah Bird Rose, Kim TallBear, Charis Thompson, David Turnbull, Thom van Dooren, Rebecca J. H. Woods

Why We Will Never Win the War on AIDS

Author : Bryan J. Ellison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Why We Will Never Win the War on AIDS written by Bryan J. Ellison and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New York Times Book Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New York Times Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Management

Author : Stephen P. Robbins
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management written by Stephen P. Robbins and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2007 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For courses in Principles of Management In Robbins/Coulter Management 9/e, students learn from real managers how to apply management theory. Students are actively engaged in putting concepts into practice-- thinking and acting like real managers through the integration of various in-text assignments and unique online activities (Robbins Online Learning System (R.O.L.L.S)). Robbins/Coulter, put on your management hat.