Results for "Crawford, Dorothy H."

bVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Viruses are everywhere, and as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, cannot be ignored. From their discovery to the unravelling of their intricate structures, this Very Short Introduction provides a rounded and concise account of the nature of vi... Read More about Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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 how clever these entities really are. From their discovery and the unravelling of their... Read More about Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

bFor all our hubris, humans can be felled rapidly by an invisible enemy - viruses./b All around us are minute entities that can damage and kill: the millions of viruses that pervade the natural world. Our bodies harbour many that we have long tolerated, but a new one, that jumps into humans from an... Read More about Viruses: The Invisible Enemy (Oxford Landmark Science)

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 d... Read More about Ebola: Profile of a Killer Virus

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... Read More about Cancer Virus: The Discovery of the Epstein-Barr Virus

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... Read More about Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History (Oxford Landmark Science)