Viral : the search for the origin of COVID-19 / Alina Chan and Matt Ridley.
Viral : the search for the origin of COVID-19 / Alina Chan and Matt Ridley.
Viral : the search for the origin of COVID-19 / Alina Chan and Matt Ridley.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Call Numbers
G 2021/2836
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The mystery -- The copper mine -- Viruses -- The Wuhan whistleblowers -- The seafood market -- The pangolin papers -- Bats and the virus hunters -- Laboratory leaks -- Gain of function -- The furin cleavage site -- The other eight -- Popsicle origins and the World Health Organization -- Spillover --...
Publication information
Publisher
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2021]
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Scope and Contents
Summary
In this real-life detective story, a scientist and writer team up to try to discover how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometers away in Wuhan.
"In this uniquely insightful book, a scientist and a writer join forces to try to get to the bottom of how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical southern China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometres away in the city of Wuhan. They grapple with the baffling fact that the virus left none of th...
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Full title
Viral : the search for the origin of COVID-19 / Alina Chan and Matt Ridley.
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-390) and index.
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Date Copyright
©2021
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Call Numbers
G 2021/2836
Record Identifier
74VKarMNqEQX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKarMNqEQX
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ISBN
006313912X
9780063139121
DDC
614.592414
MMS ID
991024441623402626
