Virus Hunter
Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
13 April 1998
Summary
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 he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385485586 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0385485581 |
| Author: | Mark Olshaker, C.J. Peters |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 13 April 1998 |
| Weight: | 289g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 132mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
“Virus Hunter is a terrific book, at the top of my list. The adventure of a lifetime, it’s the inside story of the hunt for threatening and emerging viruses, told with grace and clarity by a working scientist at the hot center of his field.” —Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone
“As entertaining as an adventure novel, but with a deadly serious message.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Peters has enjoyed an impressive career studying and combating deadly viruses around the world, from various South American hemorrhagic viruses to the Ebola virus… . [His] biography is fascinating.” —Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Mark Olshaker
C. J. Peters is an international expert and consultant on emerging diseases. He has worked in the field of infectious diseases for more than three decades, having served as the chief of special pathogens at the Center for Disease Control and as chief of the Disease Assessment Division at U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Peters was the head of the unit that contained the outbreak of Ebola at Reston, Virginia, and was instrumental in establishing the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), a Bio-safety Level 4 lab. In 2000 he was named the John Sealy Distinguished University Chair in Tropical and Emerging Virology at UTMB. He lives on Galveston with his wife.
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