 | The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses by Dorothy Crawford
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.22 A good, layman's introduction to the distinctions between viruses and how they affect our lives
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 | The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £1.57 Large, but an excellent and detailed examination of the evolution of infectious agents along with their human hosts since the advent of antibiotics.
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 | Medical Microbiology: A Guide to Microbial Infections: Pathogensis, Immunity, Laboratory Diagnosis and Control by David Greenwood
Buy used from: £31.43 Extremely good textbook on textbook on many bacteria, viruses, parasites, etc., Arranged by organism for easier reference.
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 | Biohazard by Kenneth Alibek
Buy new: £8.48 / Used from: £1.44 Written by the organiser of Russia's biological weapons program during the Cold War. Of interest to anyone who wonders just what biological weapons might be capable of.
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 | The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Buy used from: £0.01 A true story of an ebola outbreak in Washington D.C. in 1989. Gripping stuff.
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 | The Demon in the Freezer: The Terrifying Truth About the Threat from Bioterrorism by Richard Preston
Buy used from: £1.12 The smallpox question, post 9/11.
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 | Hepatitis C: The Silent Killer by Carol Turkington
Buy used from: £0.33 A virus that doesn't usually receive much attention, yet which costs health services millions every year.
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 | The Virus Hunters: Dispatches from the Frontline by Joseph B. McCormick
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £1.27 An exciting read about battling deadly viruses in an environment which could kill you just as surely as the viruses could.
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 | Level 4 Virus Hunters of the CDC by Joseph B. McCormick
Buy used from: £1.13 The account of two doctors who have devoted their lives to fighting viruses on the front line, and were instrumental in establishing the CDC.
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 | Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health by Richard Rhodes
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.11 An investigation into 'mad cow disease' and other prion-related diseases. A rather controversial work.
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 | Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told - The Search for the Cure and the New Global Threat by Frank Ryan
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £0.26 Everyone thought tuberculosis was old news - until the AIDS epidemic.
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 | Virus X: Understanding the Real Threat of the New Pandemic Plagues by Frank Ryan
Buy used from: £0.01 Explaining the dangers of emerging viruses and the potential for pandemic plagues.
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 | Scourge by Jonathan Tucker
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.89 An extremely good examination of smallpox through the ages, with a detailed explanation of the global eradication programme and an examination of its potential as a biological agent.
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 | The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe (Arnold Publication) by Samuel K. Cohn Jr.
Buy new: £21.99 / Used from: £9.50 An investigation into the Black Death of the middle ages, from original sources.
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 | Secret Agents by M Drexler
Buy used from: £4.68 Examines the evolution of micro-organisms, how human actions are affecting this, and its effect on us in turn.
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 | Mosquito: The Story of Man's Deadliest Foe by Andrew Spielman
Buy used from: £7.65 Mosquitos are intimately linked with the spread of some of the more deadly human infections. This book examines their role and human attempts at controlling them.
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 | Polio by Frederick C. Robbins
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £2.62 Once a dreaded childhood disease, polio is now preventable by vaccine, and a global eradication programme is underway.
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 | The Biography Of A Germ by Arno Karlen
Buy used from: £0.97 What the title says. The story from a germ's point of view.
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 | Catching Cold: 1918's Forgotten Tragedy and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused it by Pete Davies
Buy used from: £0.23 Excellent book on the 1918 'flu pandemic, the hunt to find the virus that caused it, and the evolution and movements of influenza before and since.
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 | Dark Life by Michael Ray Taylor
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 A study of the unusual bacteria who live in the nooks and crannies of the planet, at extreme pressures and without ever seeing the sun.
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 | Betrayal of Trust: the Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett
Buy used from: £1.91 Well researched and detailed, looking at the start of public health and its development into national policies.
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 | The Plague Race: A Tale of Fear, Science and Heroism by Edward Marriott
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Yersinia pestis in the 20th century.
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 | Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History by Sheila M. Rothman
Buy new: £14.03 / Used from: £14.60 Recommended by another enthusiast
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 | Pox: Genius, Madness and the Mysteries of Syphilis by Deborah Hayden
Buy used from: £11.99 Syphilis, past, present and future.
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 | Essential Public Health by Liam J. Donaldson
Buy new: £28.95 / Used from: £21.86 A must-have for anyone studying Public Health
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