Virology


The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
A Planet of Viruses
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
The Demon in the Freezer
Viruses, Plagues, and History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
Virus Mania: How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics, Making Billion Dollar Profits at Our Expense
Viral: The Search For the Origin Of COVID-19
Zika: The Emerging Epidemic
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryGet Well Soon by Jennifer   WrightAmanda Gorman Book by University PressHistory Smashers by Kate Messner
Staff Picks: Pandemic Reads
100 books — 5 voters

I Contain Multitudes by Ed YongThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonMarch of the Microbes by IngrahamThe Living Medicine by Lina Zeldovich
Microbiology
98 books — 25 voters

Virus Hunter by C.J. PetersThe Living Medicine by Lina ZeldovichThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Hot Zone by Richard   Preston
Going Viral!
99 books — 15 voters

Since the tissue and immune barriers of the orginal hosts were very similar o those of the new host, these virus would posses pre-envolved strategies that would work pretty much in the new host as they did in a very important characteristic in common. Once they entered an individual, or species, the never wnet away, not in terms of the entire affected population, or even the species. The biological term for such a relationship is "persistence" and viruses are said to be "persistant-viruses". The ...more
Frank Ryan

We’re on the bleeding edge of theistic virology here.
Peter Watts, Echopraxia

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