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020			_a9781847926692
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100			_aQuammen, David
245			_aBreathless : the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus
260			_bBodley Head, _c2022 _aLondon :
300			_aviii, 406 p. ; _bill., _c24 cm
365			_b799.00 _cINR _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe definitive story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Breathless is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing nature, and its capacity to kill us. David Quammen expertly shows how strange new viruses emerge from animals into humans as we disrupt wild ecosystems, and how those viruses adapt to their human hosts, sometimes causing global catastrophe. He explains why this coronavirus will probably be a 'forever virus', destined to circulate among humans and bedevil us endlessly, in one variant form or another. As scientists labour to catch it and comprehend it and control it, with their high-tech tools and methods, the virus finds ways of escape. Based on interviews with nearly one hundred scientists, including leading virologists in China and around the world, Quammen explains that: -Infectious disease experts saw this pandemic coming -Some scientists, for more than two decades, warned that 'the next big one' would be caused by a changeable new virus-very possibly a coronavirus-but such warnings were ignored for political or economic reasons -The precise origins of this virus may not be known for years, but some clues are compelling, and some suppositions can be dismissed -And much more. Breathless takes you inside the frantic international effort to understand and control SARS-CoV-2 as if we were peering over the shoulders of the brilliant scientists who led the chase.
650			_aEpidemics
650			_aVaccines industry
650			_aSARs-CoV-2
650			_aForensic medicine
650			_aBats
650			_aChina
650			_a Genome
650			_aInfectious diseases
650			_aItaly
650			_aMutations
650			_a Pangolins
650			_aRespiratory syncytial virus
650			_aSouth Korea
650			_a Vaccine
650			_aWuhan
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