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Viruses - The Invisible Enemy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Viruses - The Invisible Enemy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Oxford Landmark Science
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For all our hubris, humans can be felled rapidly by an invisible
enemy - viruses. All around us are minute entities that can damage
and kill: the millions of viruses that pervade the natural world.
Our bodies harbour many that we have long tolerated, but a new one,
that jumps into humans from another species, can be lethal - as we
have seen most recently with the virus responsible for COVID-19.
But what are viruses, how do they cause disease, and how can we
fight them? In Viruses: The Invisible Enemy, a brand new edition of
her classic work, virologist Dorothy Crawford explores these
questions. She takes the reader on a journey through the past to
show how, as the human race evolved from hunter gatherer to farmer
to our present urban, industrialised society, viruses have taken
advantage of each lifestyle change to promote their own survival.
We have acquired many new viruses along the way, some spreading
globally and causing killer diseases. But now, in the 21st century,
as humans increasingly encroach into and exploit the natural world,
the rate of emergence of novel viruses is accelerating. Already
we've had a flu pandemic, large epidemics from SARS, Ebola and Zika
viruses, and most devastating of all, SARS-CoV-2, which swept
around the world in 2020-21, causing the COVID-19 pandemic. The
response of scientists has been rapid, producing vaccines in record
time. But we can expect more such challenges in the future. This
book discusses why and how SARS-CoV-2 and other killer viruses
emerged, and how we can win the battle against such an enemy.
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