Viral : the search for the origin of COVID-19

Viral The search for the origin of COVID-19

Alina Chan

Book - 2021

In this real-life detective story, a scientist and writer team up to try to discover how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometers away in Wuhan.

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Subjects
COVID-19 (Disease) > Etiology.
COVID-19 (Disease)
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Alina Chan (author)
Other Authors
Matt Ridley (author)
Edition
First U.S. edition
Physical Description
404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-390) and index.
ISBN
9780063139121
  • Prologue: The mystery
  • 1. The copper mine
  • 2. Viruses
  • 3. The Wuhan whistleblowers
  • 4. The seafood market
  • 5. The pangolin papers
  • 6. Bats and the virus hunters
  • 7. Laboratory leaks
  • 8. Gain of function
  • 9. The furin cleavage site
  • 10. The other eight
  • 11. Popsicle Origins and the World Health Organization
  • 12. Spillover
  • 13. Accident
  • 14. The origin of Covid-19
  • Epilogue: Truth will out
  • Timeline
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • List of Illustrations
  • Index

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