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The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic by Alan Sipress Publisher Comments Like "The Hot Zone" and "The Great Influenza, The Fatal Strain" is a fast-moving account that brings the inevitability of an avian flu epidemic into a fascinating cultural, scientific, and political narrative.... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Emerging Viruses by Stephen S Morse Publisher Comments New epidemics such as AIDS and "mad cow" disease have dramatized the need to explore the factors underlying rapid viral evolution and emerging viruses. This comprehensive volume is the first to describe this multifaceted new field. It places viral... (read more) List Price $61.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Killer Germs: Rogue Diseases of the Twenty-First Century by Pete Moore Publisher Comments Who among us has not been terrified by recent outbreaks of viral and bacterial diseases seemingly resistant to antibiotics and other forms of modern "treatment", not to mention the increasingly real threat of biological warfare? This gripping new book... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections by Madeline Drexler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-299) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Microterrors by Tony Hart, Ph.d. Publisher Comments An illustrated reference of the microorganisms that threaten humanity, both natural but drug resistant, and as created weapons. Dramatic digital illustrations and colored electron microscope mug shots accompany hundreds of concise fact sheets.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Emerging Viruses by Stephen S. Morse Publisher Comments New epidemics such as AIDS and "mad cow" disease have dramatized the need to explore the factors underlying rapid viral evolution and emerging viruses. This comprehensive volume is the first to describe this multifaceted new field. It places viral... (read more) List Price $49.99 Your price: $46.24 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Virus and the Vaccine (05 Edition) by Debbie Bookchin Publisher Comments Jonas Salk's polio vaccine is regarded as a veritbale medical miracle, for it largely eradicated one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. But the story of the vaccine has a dark side, one that has never been fully told before. Between 1954... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Plague Time : the New Germ Theory of Disease ((Rev)02 Edition) by Paul W. Ewald Publisher Comments According to conventional wisdom, our genes and lifestyles are the most important causes of the most deadly ailments of our time. Conventional wisdom may be wrong. In this controversial book, the eminent biologist Paul W. Ewald offers some startling... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Hunting the 1918 Flu by Kirsty E Duncan Publisher Comments In 1918, medical science was at a loss to explain the Spanish flu epidemic, which swept the world in three great waves and killed an estimated 20 to 40 million people in just one year, more than the number that died during the four years of World War I... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 Outbreaks of avian and swine flu have reawakened fears that had lain dormant for nearly a century, ever since the influenza pandemic of 1918 that killed at least 50 million... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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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 Chief of Special Pathogens at the Centers for Disease Control -- teams up with the bestselling coauthor of MindHunter to chronicle his extraordinary thirty-year career... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug by Thomas Hager Publisher Comments The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - 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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Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments In a non-fiction narrative that reads like a medical thriller, Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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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Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by Judith Miller and Stephen Engelberg and William Broad From Powells.com In December 1997, the Pentagon decided to vaccinate all US military personnel against the anthrax virus. Puzzled by the motive and the timing of the decision, Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad, three seasoned New York Times... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The hot zone by Richard Preston Book News Annotation Look for a pot-boilin', splatter flick from this fictionalized medical horror story. On the filovirus out of Africa & the Philippines and its ghastly symptoms in man & monkey. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bio-Terror Catastrophe by Michael T Osterholm Publisher Comments This book will tell you what that will mean when the inevitable happens, and what we as a nation can and must do now to protect ourselves, our families, and the basic elements of our society that bioterrorism puts at risk. You will also learn why the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Level 4 Hunters of the CDC by Joseph B Mccormick Synopsis A personal account of more than 25 years spent fighting viruses, in both the high-tech lab that McCormick helped to create at the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta and in the most primitive places on the planet.... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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