Viral fitness the next SARS and West Nile in the making /

Goudsmit, Jaap, 1951-

Viral fitness the next SARS and West Nile in the making / [electronic resource] : Jaap Goudsmit. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. - xiii, 187 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index.

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.


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Viruses.
Virus diseases.


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