A Planet of Viruses
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We’re most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like...
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Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We’re most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780226983332 (0226983331)
Publisher: Not Avail
Pages no: 108
Edition language: English
An excellent read, but too short. This is really a series of articles about specific viruses, but the articles are related and follow a logical progression, and an epilogue ties them together. The writing is good, lucid for the non-virologist but not patronizingly simple. My only complaint is tha...
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