New Guinea Tapeworms And Jewish Grandmothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Guinea Tapeworms And Jewish Grandmothers write by Robert S Desowitz. This book was released on 1987-04-07. New Guinea Tapeworms And Jewish Grandmothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A medical ecologist examines the threat posed by disease-carrying parasites and insects and identifies the conditions--miracle drugs, destruction of natural controls--that have encouraged them to flourish.
New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers
New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers write by Robert S. Desowitz. This book was released on 1983-07-01. New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A medical ecologist examines the threat posed by disease-carrying parasites and insects and identifies the conditions--miracle drugs, destruction of natural controls--that have encouraged them to flourish
Parasite Rex
Parasite Rex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parasite Rex write by Carl Zimmer. This book was released on 2001-11-09. Parasite Rex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts' own molecules. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution, where the majority of species are parasites. WELCOME TO EARTH. For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Yet these creatures are among the world's most successful and sophisticated organisms. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer deftly balances the scientific and the disgusting as he takes readers on a fantastic voyage. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the fetid parasite haven of southern Sudan, Zimmer graphically brings to life how parasites can change DNA, rewire the brain, make men more distrustful and women more outgoing, and turn hosts into the living dead. This thorough, gracefully written book brings parasites out into the open and uncovers what they can teach us about the most fundamental survival tactics in the universe.
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus write by Robert S. Desowitz. This book was released on 2004. Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world has been confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. The wake-up call sounded at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, West Nile virus, malaria and African sleeping sickness. Desowitz traces the histories of these diseases and the issues people must confront about them.
The Perfect Predator
The Perfect Predator - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Perfect Predator write by Steffanie Strathdee. This book was released on 2019-02-26. The Perfect Predator available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An electrifying memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more. "A memoir that reads like a thriller." -New York Times Book Review "A fascinating and terrifying peek into the devastating outcomes of antibiotic misuse-and what happens when standard health care falls short." -Scientific American Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of food poisoning quickly turned critical, and by the time Tom had been transferred via emergency medevac to the world-class medical center at UC San Diego, where both he and Steffanie worked, blood work revealed why modern medicine was failing: Tom was fighting one of the most dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the world. Frantic, Steffanie combed through research old and new and came across phage therapy: the idea that the right virus, aka "the perfect predator," can kill even the most lethal bacteria. Phage treatment had fallen out of favor almost 100 years ago, after antibiotic use went mainstream. Now, with time running out, Steffanie appealed to phage researchers all over the world for help. She found allies at the FDA, researchers from Texas A&M, and a clandestine Navy biomedical center -- and together they resurrected a forgotten cure. A nail-biting medical mystery, The Perfect Predator is a story of love and survival against all odds, and the (re)discovery of a powerful new weapon in the global superbug crisis.
