Carried by mosquitoes, the Zika virus is spreading quickly through many countries in South America and the Caribbean. We report on the history of the virus, its dangers, why the World Health Organization has said it is global health emergency, and what Brazil plans to do to stop it. Money is being spent to make access to the 'world's oldest temple' in Turkey easier. We outline why the site raises so many unanswered questions. Elsewhere, the secretary birds' stamp is measured with some surprising results and the Doomsday Clock remains at three minutes to midnight.
Darwin's Radio is a 1999 science fiction novel by Greg Bear. It won the Nebula Award in 2000 for Best Novel[1] and the 2000 Endeavour Award. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award, Locus and Campbell Awards the same year.[1] It was followed by a sequel, Darwin's Children, in 2003. A virus hunter at the Epidemic Intelligence Service has discovered that a long-dormant virus encoded in human DNA is about to re-awaken, with terrifying consequences for any woman about to have a child. Reprint.
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A baffling virus has claimed the lives of four people across the country--including Dr. Sophia Russell, a research scientist working to understand the disease. Bitter and broken-hearted over the death of his beautiful fiancée, Jon Smith is determined to uncover the cause of the virus that killed her--and prevent it from turning into a pandemic of epic proportions. He'll travel across the globe and into the darkest corridors of murder and greed, to find a killer who would sacrifice millions of lives for his own success…
Hiro Protagonist — yeah, that's his name — is a freelance hacker and unemployed pizza deliveryman lost in a post-lapsarian, hyper-capitalist future America in which the central government has withered away, leaving behind a landscape of gated communities and endless strip malls lined with cookie-cutter retail franchises. When a virulent computer virus (or is it a drug? or a religion?) called Snow Crash gets loose and somehow starts infecting humans, Hiro teams up with a sassy skateboard messenger to save both the real world and cyberspace.
Does viral hepatitis merit a 649-page, 10-lb review? It certainly does. Readers and the publisher appear to agree, because Viral Hepatitis has now appeared in a second edition. Hepatitis viruses are important agents of disease worldwide, and hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), which produce chronic infections, affect hundreds of millions of people. These two viruses cause most cases of chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer in the world.
