The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

"[A] quietly terrifying book. . . . It's hard not to feel a bit feverish at times while reading." —The Boston Globe

In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by side through history; how deadly viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu almost wiped us out in the past; and why modern life has made our species vulnerable to the threat of a global pandemic. He takes readers along on his groundbre…