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Viruses: The Invisible Enemy (Oxford Landmark Science)
Sinopsis :
For all our hubris, humans can be felled rapidly by an invisible
enemy - viruses.All around us are minute entities that can
damage and kill: the millions of viruses that pervade the
natural world. Our bodies harbour many that we have long
tolerated, but a new one, that jumps into humans from another
species, can be lethal - as we have seen most recently with
the virus responsible for COVID-19. But what are viruses, how
do they cause disease, and how can we fight them?In Viruses:
The Invisible Enemy, a brand new edition of her classic work,
virologist Dorothy Crawford explores these questions. She
takes the reader on a journey through the past to show how,
as the human race evolved from hunter gatherer to farmer to

our present urban, industrialised society, viruses have taken
advantage of each lifestyle change to promote their own
survival.We have acquired many new viruses along the way,
some spreading globally and causing killer diseases. But now,
in the 21st century, as humans increasingly encroach into and
exploit the natural world, the rate of emergence of novel
viruses is accelerating. Already we've had a flu pandemic,
large epidemics from SARS, Ebola and Zika viruses, and most
devastating of all, SARS-CoV-2, which swept around the world
in 2020-21, causing the COVID-19 pandemic. The response of
scientists has been rapid,producing vaccines in record time.
But we can expect more such challenges in the future. This
book discusses why and how SARS-CoV-2 and other killer
viruses emerged, and how we can win the battle against such
an enemy.