Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
    Unavailable
    The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
    Unavailable
    The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
    Ebook366 pages6 hours

    The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

    By Nathan Wolfe

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    Listen to the audiobook instead

    About this ebook

    “One of the world’s foremost virus hunters” (Financial Times), Stanford University biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the origins of the world’s most deadly diseases and how we can combat and stop contagions.

    A “mix of biology, history, medicine, and first-hand experience [that] is potent and irresistible,”* The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age shares information Wolfe uncovered on his groundbreaking and dangerous research missions in the jungles of Africa and the rain forests of Borneo to provide an in-depth exploration of how lethal viruses evolved alongside human beings; how illnesses 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.

    In a world where each new outbreak seems worse than the one before, Wolfe points the way forward, as new technologies are brought to bear in the most remote areas of the world to neutralize these viruses and even harness their power for the good of humanity. His provocative vision of the future will change the way we think about viruses, and perhaps remove a potential threat to humanity’s survival.

    “An astonishingly lucid book on an important topic. Deeply researched, yet effortlessly recounted.”—*Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 11, 2011
    ISBN9781429973595
    Author

    Nathan Wolfe

    Nathan Wolfe is the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University and Director of Global Viral Forecasting, a pandemic early warning system which monitors the spillover of novel infectious agents from animals into humans. Wolfe has been published in or profiled by Nature, Science, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, Wired, Discover, Scientific American, NPR, Popular Science, Seed, and Forbes. Wolfe was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship in 1997 and was awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) International Research Scientist Development Award in 1999 and the prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2005. He is the author of the book The Viral Storm.

    Related to The Viral Storm

    Related ebooks

    Social Science For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Study: COVID Vaccines Didn't Impact Placentas During Pregnancy

      May 12, 2021

      CHICAGO – New data from researchers who studied women who were vaccinated while pregnant found no evidence that the vaccine affected their placentas. The new findings, published Tuesday in the Obstetrics & Gynecology journal, may help switch the focu

      2 min read

    • Article

      From The Editor

      Aug 11, 2021

      The first detection of a gravitational wave; the discovery of the first Earth-like exoplanet; the confirmation of the Higgs boson. I’ve been lucky enough to report on all these and more in the last decade. But in terms of significance, the discovery

      1 min read

    • Article

      The 35 Best Health and Science Books to Read This Summer

      Jun 21, 2017

      Hopefully you have time carved out for some rest and relaxation this summer, but whatever will you read? We here at STAT have you covered.

      12 min read

    • Article

      It’s A Bad Day For Company Public Relations When Two People Suffer Severe Allergic Reactions On Day One Of Your New Product’s Highly Publicized Roll-out.

      Mar 16, 2021

      It’s A Bad Day For Company Public Relations When Two People Suffer Severe Allergic Reactions On Day One Of Your New Product’s Highly Publicized Roll-out.
      10 min read

    • Article

      Why Are Republicans So Threatened By Universal Daycare? | Arwa Mahdawi

      May 1, 2021

      Joe Biden wants to spend big money on small children. On Wednesday the president announced an ambitious $1.8tn plan to boost family assistance programs, childhood education and student aid. If passed, the American Families Plan would overhaul the cur

      3 min read

    • Article

      How To Prevent The Next Pandemic

      Nov 6, 2020

      How To Prevent The Next Pandemic
      9 min read

    • Article

      A History Of Pandemics

      Aug 12, 2023

      What comes to mind when we hear ‘cholera’? Why is cholera still a problem in the world today? The Bay of Bengal has the dubious distinction of housing on its shores the only populations in the world where the disease has been endemic (‘in the people’

      2 min read

    • Article

      Model Or monster?

      Jun 12, 2022

      Model Or monster?
      16 min read

    • Article

      The Superorganism That Created the Pandemic

      Mar 26, 2020

      I’ve spent years adventuring in exotic parts of the world seeking out wildlife—weeks in tents in remote wildernesses, nights uncomfortably holed up in hides in rainforests. I’ve drifted through mangroves on boats, even lodged in a tree-canopy camp. A

      5 min read

    • Article

      Chris Packham: ‘We’re In Deep S***. We Need Science More Than Ever’

      Mar 15, 2021

      Chris Packham is on a mission - to energise viewers with such amazement at the natural world, that they fall in love with science, and thereby help put us on track to improving our planet. While this may have been a subplot in much of his previous wo

      4 min read

    • Article

      Michelle Power

      Jan 14, 2021

      Just after sunset each night, little penguins waddle to their nests in the breakwater by St Kilda Pier in Melbourne, Australia. The iconic – and downright adorable – sight attracts tourists, but for parasitologist Michelle Power, the penguins can als

      2 min read

    • Article

      Edward O.wilson

      Jul 1, 2020

      Edward O.wilson
      5 min read

    • Article

      Meet The Author

      Oct 2, 2020

      The pangolin’s scales, meant to protect the animal against predators, are what puts it most at risk – trade in pangolin “products” has earned this shy animal the title of most trafficked mammal in the world. In Pangolins – Scales of Injustice, conser

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Vast Viral World: What We Know (and Don’t Know)

      Apr 7, 2021

      Slightly ovoid in shape and somewhat blurred at the edges, the black splotches were scattered across a mottled gray background, looking much like a postmodern painting. At a meeting of the Medical Society of Berlin in 1938, Helmut Ruska, a German phy

      12 min read

    Reviews for The Viral Storm

    3.5/5

    13 ratings5 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Audio. Ratings aren't very high for this book, but I found it worked very well as an audiobook. It is not very technical, and, unsurprisingly, tends to focus on the author's own areas of research. He does a fair bit of name dropping, and promotion of his own organization and research, but it is all relevant to the subject.
    • 2/5
      I don't want to say that I'm a professional bug chaser or viral freak, but out of all the books I read and love about disease, viruses, infection, etc, this was my least favorite.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I am not sure what the central premise was, behind this book by Richard Preston. On the whole, I was disappointed by the book. I had the impression that Richard Preston was more intent in talking about himself, and less about the spread of viruses and disease. The book was full of anecdotes and stories. While entertaining, it did not serve the stated purpose of informing us how, and why, we will are faced with the prospect of an increasing number of pandemics. The section on the tools being developed to help us predict pandemics was vague. Finally, he did not discuss the societal and sociological aspects that impact the spread of disease. This is a disappointing book.
    • 4/5
      This book is probably better than the ratings on LibraryThing suggest. Having read enough of these types of books it was refreshing to read one by a top expert in the field who brings a multidisciplinary approach yet keeps it accessible to the average reader. This is not a journalist version made for movies. The ultimate purpose is to raise awareness for the need to predict outbreaks before they happen, something which Wolfe himself is attempting to build. It's a noble (Nobel) aim indeed so I can't fault the motivation, or even criticize the scheme. Probably the best analogy is this is a book long TED Talk.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I gave the book only 2 stars. Heard the interview with the author on NPR and was expecting much more from the book than it delivered. I was expecting something meaty about virus hunting. What I got was pablum. Which in viruses is a good thing, but not in books.