Subject: Science
Author: F. M. Burnet
Publisher: Penguin Books - Pelican
Year published: 1953 (First edition)
Price: RM7
Pages: 194
Condition: Normal (the book's cover is slightly faded due to old; inside is still in good condition)
Product code: 00005
Remark: First edition - Good for collector
Viruses, the smallest living organisms, the common diseases which they cause, the problems of their survival, and the efforts being made to control them.
Viruses as the smallest of living organisms are of the greatest interest to the biologist concerned with the fundamental nature of life, and the new techniques which have been developed in the last 20 years have made their laboratory study a fascinating pursuit.
In this book, the author gives an account of the common virus diseases of man in which both the human and the scientific aspects are considered. The theme running through almost every chapter is that of survival - how has the mumps virus survived unchanged since the days of Hippocrates? - where do influenza viruses go in summer? - and in the final chapter an attempt is made to assess what the future may hold in store.
Is another influenza pandemic like that of 1918 still possible; is it conceivable that new virus diseases coild be deliberately created; why has poliomyelitis become important only within the last fifty years? There are still plenty of questions.
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