9780679730835-0679730834-Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses

Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses

ISBN-13: 9780679730835
ISBN-10: 0679730834
Author: Robin Marantz Henig
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback 269 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780679730835
ISBN-10: 0679730834
Author: Robin Marantz Henig
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback 269 pages

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Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses (ISBN-13: 9780679730835 and ISBN-10: 0679730834), written by authors Robin Marantz Henig, was published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in 1994. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Agricultural Sciences (Anatomy, Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology, Evolution) books. You can easily purchase or rent Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Agricultural Sciences books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.42.

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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 spread, and how scientists are trying to outwit them. Interweaving theory and real-life medical drama, A Dancing Matrix is science reportage at its most suspenseful and informative.

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