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Viruses

A Very Short Introduction

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

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Viruses

A Very Short Introduction

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this Very Short Introduction, Dorothy Crawford demonstrates from their discovery and the unravelling of their intricate structures, how clever these entities really are.

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Oxford University Press

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0198811713

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9780198811718

Viruses

The Invisible Enemy

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

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Viruses

The Invisible Enemy

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

Originally published under the title: The invisible enemy: a natural history of viruses, 2002.

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0192845039

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9780192845030

Deadly Companions

How Microbes Shaped our History

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

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Deadly Companions

How Microbes Shaped our History

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows that one cannot be truly understood without the other. Beginning with a dramatic account of the SARS pandemic at the start of the 21st century, she takes us back in time to follow the interlinked history of microbes and man, taking an up-to-date look at ancient plagues and epidemics, and identifying key changes in the way humans have lived - such as our move from hunter-gatherer to farmer to city-dweller — which made us vulnerable to microbe attack. Showing how we live our lives today — with increasing crowding and air travel — puts us once again at risk, Crawford asks whether we might ever conquer microbes completely, or whether we need to take a more microbe-centric view of the world. Among the possible answers, one thing becomes clear: that for generations to come, our deadly companions will continue to shape human history. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.

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0192552988

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9780192552983

Virus Hunt

The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

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Virus Hunt

The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural south east Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it was able to spread so widely. From hospital intensive care wards to research laboratories and the African rain forests, this is the wide-ranging story of a killer virus and a tale of scientific endeavour.

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OUP Oxford

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0191654116

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Deadly Companions

How Microbes Shaped our History

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

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How Microbes Shaped our History

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019255297X

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9780192552976

Ebola

Profile of a Killer Virus

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

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Ebola

Profile of a Killer Virus

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa. Thousands of people died as the extraordinarily contagious disease spread rapidly from villages to urban centres. Initial quarantine responses proved often too little and too late, and the medical infrastructure of the affected countries struggled to cope. By August 2014, several months after the start of the outbreak, the WHO declared the epidemic a public health emergency and international aid teams and volunteers began to pour in. But halting the epidemic proved to be hugely challenging, not only in terms of the practicalities of dealing with the sheer numbers of patients carrying the highly infectious virus, but in dealing with social and cultural barriers. The author, Dorothy Crawford, visited Sierra Leone while the epidemic was ongoing and met with those on the frontline in the fight against the virus. In Ebola Crawford combines personal accounts from these brave medical workers with the latest scientific reports to tell the story of the epidemic as it unfolded, and how it has changed our understanding of the virus. She looks at its origin and spread, the international response, and its devastating legacy to the health of those living in the three worst affected countries. She describes the efforts to prevent international spread, the treatment options for Ebola, including the drug and vaccine trials that eventually got underway in 2015, and the sensitive issue of running trials of experimental therapies during a lethal epidemic. Our understanding of the Ebola virus continues to develop as long-term health problems and complications following recovery from the disease are being identified. Epidemics of Ebola or other dangerous microbes will continue to threaten the world regularly. Already concerns have been raised by the possible impact of the Zika virus. What lessons have been learnt from Ebola? How, asks Crawford, might we prevent a repeat of the awful suffering seen in 2014-16?

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Oxford University Press

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0191078859

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Viruses

A Very Short Introduction

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

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A Very Short Introduction

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Cancer Virus

The discovery of the Epstein-Barr Virus

By: Dorothy H. Crawford,Ingólfur Johannessen,Alan B. Rickinson

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Cancer Virus

The discovery of the Epstein-Barr Virus

By: Dorothy H. Crawford,Ingólfur Johannessen,Alan B. Rickinson

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in 1964. At the time, the very idea of a virus underlying a cancer was revolutionary. Cancer is, after all, not catching. Even now, the idea of a virus causing cancer surprises many people. But Epstein-Barr, named after its discoverers, Sir Anthony Epstein and Dr Yvonne Barr, is fascinating for other reasons too. Almost everyone carries it, yet it is only under certain circumstances that it produces disease. It has been associated with different, apparently unrelated, diseases in different populations: Burkitt's Lymphoma, producing tumours in the jaw, in African children; a nasal tumour in China; glandular fever in Europe and the USA; and the majority of cases of Hodgkin's Disease everywhere. This book tells the story of the discovery of the virus, and the recognition of its connection with these various diseases - an account that spans the world and involves some remarkable characters and individual stories.

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OUP Oxford

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0191508691

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Virus Hunt

The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

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The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs

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Ebola

Profile of a Killer Virus

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

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Profile of a Killer Virus

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The Portable Dorothy Parker

By: Dorothy Parker

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The Portable Dorothy Parker

By: Dorothy Parker

Celebrated stories and poems from the original Portable plus later stories, play reviews, articles, book reviews, the Constant Reader, and Parker's collected New Yorker book reviews.

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0140150749

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