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Virus Hunter by Cj Peters
A New York Times Notable BookThe man who led the battle against Ebola inThe Hot Zone teams up with the bestselling co-author ofMind Hunterto chronicle his extraordinary thirty-year career fighting deadly viruses.
For three decades, Dr. C. J. Peters was on the front lines of our biological battle against "hot" viruses around the world. In the course of that career, he learned countless lessons about our interspecies turf wars with infectious agents. Called in to contain an outbreak of deadly hemorrhagic fever in Bolivia, he confronted the despair of trying to save a colleague who accidentally infected himself with an errant scalpel. Working in Level 4 labs on the Machupo and Ebola viruses, he saw time and again why expensive high-tech biohazard containment equipment is only as safe as the people who use it.
Because of new, emerging viruses, and the return of old, "vanquished" ones for which vaccines do not exist, there remains a very real danger of a new epidemic that could, without proper surveillance and early intervention, spread worldwide virtually overnight. And the possibility of foreign countries or terrorist groups using deadly airborne viruses-the poor man's nuclear arsenal-looms larger than ever.
High-octane science writing at its best and most revealing, Virus Hunter is a thrilling first-person account of what it is like to be a warrior in the Hot Zone.
JOHN DOUGLAS, the legendary FBI criminal profiler and New York Times bestselling author, has spent over twenty-five years hunting the worst of the worst, researching and culling the stories of America's most disturbing criminals. A veteran of the United States Air Force, he has been involved with more than five thousand violent crime cases over the past half century. He holds a doctorate degree in education based on teaching police officers methods of crime classification, he is an active consultant, and is a highly sought-after speaker. One of the foremost experts and investigators of criminal minds and motivations, he and his wife, Pam, a teacher, live in the Washington, DC area.
MARK OLSHAKER is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author of twelve nonfiction books and five novels, including Einstein's Brain and The Edge. His books with John Douglas, beginning with Mindhunter and, most recently, The Killer's Shadow, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into many languages. Mindhunter has been made into a dramatic series on Netflix, directed by David Fincher. Olshaker has also written extensive on another subject of deadly mysteries: disease detection and public health. His book Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs, with Dr. Michael Osterholm, predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and became a New York Times bestseller. He and his wife, Carolyn, an attorney, live in the Washington, DC area.
MARK OLSHAKER is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author of twelve nonfiction books and five novels, including Einstein's Brain and The Edge. His books with John Douglas, beginning with Mindhunter and, most recently, The Killer's Shadow, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into many languages. Mindhunter has been made into a dramatic series on Netflix, directed by David Fincher. Olshaker has also written extensive on another subject of deadly mysteries: disease detection and public health. His book Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs, with Dr. Michael Osterholm, predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and became a New York Times bestseller. He and his wife, Carolyn, an attorney, live in the Washington, DC area.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385485586 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385485581 |
| Title | Virus Hunter |
| Author | Cj Peters |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 1998-04-13 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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