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Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of
Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
Amazon.com:
Books such as Richard Preston's The Hot Zone thrust
the deadly Ebola virus into the spotlight, but they can't match the first-person
perspective of Virus Hunter. Author C. J. Peters is an ex-army colonel
who has spent his professional life studying deadly pathogens in the lab and in
the wild. He spins a drama- and adrenaline-filled true tale of virus hunters,
which is gripping despite its occasional tendency to grow verbose and detour
into personal history. Peters offers a look at crippling diseases not only
through the eyes of a scientist, but also with the perspective of an insider in
the defense establishment, painting a chilling picture of the potential of
biological terrorism or outright warfare. --This text refers to an out
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