The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

By Anna Buckley

Based on interviews broadcast on BBC Radio 4's hugely popular series, The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters introduces us to the brave scientists working on the frontline to protect us from deadly viruses. To them, the arrival of Covid-19 was not as surprise. Without their wisdom and expertise we would not have known how to respond when people started dying from a mysterious new illness in December 2019. The virus hunters features include: Wendy Barclay, a world authority on viruses that causes respiratory illness Peter Piot, microbiologist, former executive director of UNAIDS and one of the first people in the world to see the Ebola virus Jeremy Farrar, who was a doctor in Vietnam during outbreaks of bird flu and SARS and is now the director of the Wellcome Trust Jonathan Ball, a virologist who specialises in antibody treatments Kate Jones, as ecologist who has created a global map of disease hotspots Martha Clokie, who spent a decade searching for viruses that cure not kill Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474608086
• ISBN13: 9781474608084
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: W&n
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"