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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett Publisher Comments Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases—HIV... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston Publisher Comments "Popular science writing at its best and the years most infectious page-turner" (People), this two-million-copy bestseller is "a top-drawer horror story...the best literary roller coaster of the fall" (Newsweek).... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Emerging Viruses by Leonard G. Horowitz Book News Annotation Horowitz (public health author) presents thoroughly researched information in his exploration into the origins of the HIV and Ebola viruses. His bias toward the theory that HIV was introduced into the general population by vaccine experiments... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age by Nathan Wolfe Publisher Comments Dynamic young Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic pandemics. In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service by Mark Pendergrast Publisher Comments FRONT COVER “Pendergrast ably recounts the last half century of [epidemics] . . . complete with the mystery, intrigue, and gory details of your favorite police procedural drama.”—SEED BACK COVER “Thorough, ambitious... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer Publisher Comments Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, 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... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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Killer Germs: Microbes and Diseases That Threaten Humanity by Barry E Zimmerman Publisher Comments Everything readers ever wanted to know about deadly viruses, killer parasites, flesh-eating microbes, and other lifethreatening beasties but were afraid to ask What disease, known as "the White Death" has killed 2 billion people, and counting? What fatal... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Virolution: The Most Important Evolutionary Book Since Dawkins' Selfish Gene by Frank Ryan Publisher Comments From an acclaimed scientific thinker and writer comes the most exciting advance in evolution since Dawkins' The Selfish Gene—how the extraordinary role of viruses in evolution is revolutionizing biology and medicine Combining Darwin, the double... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Five-Second Rule and Other Myths about Germs: What Everyone Should Know about Bacteria, Viruses, Mold, and Mildew by Anne E. Maczulak Publisher Comments They're everywhere! In water, food, air, and soil. On the kitchen counter and in the bathroom. On our skin, in our intestines, and even swimming in our mouths! They affect us every second of our lives, but most microbes are terribly misunderstood. The... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science by Richard Preston Publisher Comments Panic in Level 4 is a grand tour through the eerie and unforgettable universe of Richard Preston, filled with incredible characters and mysteries that refuse to leave ones mind. Here are dramatic true stories from this acclaimed and award-winning author,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic by Alan Sipress Publisher Comments A riveting account of why science alone can't stop the next pandemic. In 2009, Swine Flu reminded us that pandemics still happen, and award- winning journalist Alan Sipress reminds us that far worse could be brewing. When a highly lethal strain of avian... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Germs Gone Wild: How the Unchecked Development of Domestic Biodefense Threatens America by Kenneth King Publisher Comments Battling a new generation of corporate giants and uncovering threats right in our own backyard, Kenneth King's Germs Gone Wild reveals the massive expansion of America's bio-defense research labs and the culture of deception surrounding hundreds of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Microterrors: The Complete Guide to Bacterial, Viral and Fungal Infections That Threaten Our Health by Tony Hart Publisher Comments Covering the role of viruses in human evolution, as well as bioengineering, "Mircroterrors" presents the terrifying rogues' gallery of invisible killers. Dramatic digital illustrations and computer-colored electron images provide mug-book profiles of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Little Book of Pandemics: 50 of the World's Most Virulent Plagues and Infectious Diseases by Peter Moore Publisher Comments As the world waits once again to see if the latest virus will decimate the population, The Little Black of Pandemics looks at the greatest natural killers of all time. This concise and intelligent look at the most deadly viral and bacterial... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Flexible
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Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections by Madeline Drexler Publisher Comments So you think modern medicine has the whole virus game figured out? Think again. And it?s not even a question of "if" we?ll be hit by some new and deadly disease — it?s "when." The war on germs is being fought on many fronts — from the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses by Dorothy H Crawford Publisher Comments In 1969 the US Surgeon General confidently declared, "We can now close the book on infectious diseases." The advent of AIDS has proven him spectacularly wrong, and in recent years the world has witnessed infectious outbreaks of other highly lethal... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What's Eating You?: People and Parasites by Eugene H. Kaplan Publisher Comments In What's Eating You? Eugene Kaplan recounts the true and harrowing tales of his adventures with parasites, and in the process introduces readers to the intimately interwoven lives of host and parasite. Kaplan has spent his life traveling the globe... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All by Elinor Levy Publisher Comments The strange new disease SARS erupted apparently out of nowhere and has spread at an astonishing rate. Scary as SARS itself is, the disease is also a warning of many possible such outbreaks to come. Featuring the disturbing story of SARSwhere it came from,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World by C J Peters Publisher Comments The commander of the Army virology unit that battled Ebola in The Hot Zone--and current director of Special Pathogens at the CDC--teams up with the bestselling co-author of Mind Hunter to chronicle his extraordinary thirty-year career fighting deadly... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA by Maryn McKenna Publisher Comments Reveals the hidden history of MRSA's relentless advance-- how it has overwhelmed hospitals, assaulted families, and infiltrated agriculture and live-stock, moving inexorably into the food chain.... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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