Virusphere: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

Virusphere: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
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A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history.What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the same patterns of evolution as plants and animals?Frank Ryan answers these questions and many more in a sweeping tour of illnesses caused by viruses. For example, the common cold, measles, chicken pox, herpes and mumps, rubella, as well as less familiar examples, such as rabies, ‘breakbone’ fever, haemorrhagic fevers like Ebola, and virus-induced cancers. Along the way, readers will learn about the behaviours and ultimate goals of viruses, gaining a deeper understanding of their importance in relation to the origins and the evolution of life, as well as they ways viruses have changed us at the most intimate level, to help make us quintessentially human.

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Frank Ryan. Virusphere: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Introduction

I. What Are Viruses?

2. Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases

3. A Plague Upon a Plague

4. Every Parent’s Nightmare

5. A Bug Versus a Virus

6. A Coincidental Paralysis

7. Deadly Viruses

8. An All-American Plague

9. Lurker Viruses

10. How Flu Viruses Reinvent Themselves

11. A Lesson from a Machiavellian Virus

12. The Mystery of Ebola

13. The Mercurial Nature of the Zika Virus

14. A Taste for the Liver

15. Warts and All

16. Lilliputian Giants

17. Are Viruses Alive?

18. Inspiring Terror – and Delight

19. The Ecology of the Oceans

20. The Virosphere

21. The Origins of the Placental Mammals

22. Viruses in the Origins of Life

23. The Fourth Domain?

Bibliography and References

Index

About the Book

About the Author

Also by Frank Ryan

About the Publisher

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I would like to thank my editors,

Myles Archibald and Hazel Eriksson,

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14. A Taste for the Liver

15. Warts and All

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