Viral fitness the next SARS and West Nile in the making /
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- As natural as breathing: the flu virus
- Farming and feeding the hungry: plant viruses and human enteroviruses
- Raising cattle and eating meat: rinderpest, measles and mad cow virus
- Slaking our thirst: the cholera bacteria and its toxic viruses
- Weathering storms and droughts: West Nile virus and others alike
- Getting lucky with a faulty gene: escape from simple retroviruses
- Taking chances with sex: the herpes and papova viruses
- Risking death with sex: the AIDS virus
- Warring against humans and other animals: smallpox, monkeypox and alike
- Raiding the wild for delicacies: the sars virus.