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Virus Hunter : Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World by Mark Olshaker and C. J. Peters (1998, Trade Paperback)

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A New York Times Notable Book The man who led the battle against Ebola in The Hot Zone teams up with the bestselling co-author of Mind Hunter to chronicle his extraordinary thirty-year career fighting deadly viruses. For three decades, Dr. C. J. Peters was on the front lines of our biological battle against "hot" viruses around the world. In the course of that career, he learned countless lessons about our interspecies turf wars with infectious agents. Called in to contain an outbreak of deadly hemorrhagic fever in Bolivia, he confronted the despair of trying to save a colleague who accidentally infected himself with an errant scalpel. Working in Level 4 labs on the Machupo and Ebola viruses, he saw time and again why expensive high-tech biohazard containment equipment is only as safe as the people who use it. Because of new, emerging viruses, and the return of old, "vanquished" ones for which vaccines do not exist, there remains a very real danger of a new epidemic that could, without proper surveillance and early intervention, spread worldwide virtually overnight. And the possibility of foreign countries or terrorist groups using deadly airborne viruses--the poor man's nuclear arsenal--looms larger than ever. High-octane science writing at its best and most revealing, Virus Hunter is a thrilling first-person account of what it is like to be a warrior in the Hot Zone.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385485581
ISBN-13
9780385485586
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1161362

Product Key Features

Author
C. J. Peters, Mark Olshaker
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Microbiology, Life Sciences / Virology, Diseases / Contagious, Medical, Epidemiology, Diseases
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Science, Health & Fitness, Medical
Number of Pages
352 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ra649.5.P48a3 1997
Reviews
"Virus Hunter is a terrific book, at the top of my list. The adventure of a lifetime, it's the inside story of the hunt for threatening and emerging viruses, told with grace and clarity by a working scientist at the hot center of his field. C.J. Peters has had leadership roles in the army and now at the CDC, and he has much to tell that's never been told before." --Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone From the Hardcover edition.
Publication Name
Virus Hunter : Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
Copyright Date
1997
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-000977
Dewey Decimal
610/.92 B
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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Since I worked in a hospital operating room, these type of books were light reading for employees and I picked this one up from our book exchange. Thinking I would be reading something resembling the movie "Outbreak" or a CSI episode, I was not disappointed. But, this book is medical history, not someone's wild imagination. This book is written by a virologist who traveled the globe looking for the sources of new and deadly viruses. This plot could be a dry read but the author makes the subject matter interesting to the point of me not being able to put the book down. With my limited education of the subject matter, I was able to understand this with no problem so you do not need to have a PhD to pick this one up. For the average public, this is an eye-opener as to what really happened behind the headlines of the Ebola virus, Hanta virus and the Restin virus as well as some lesser known outbreaks. I now have a better understanding as to what these people do and why they find the field fascinating and exciting. I will be looking for other books similar to this subject matter.Read full review

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