Orem Library

Explores the hidden world of viruses, explaining how they profoundly affect human lives and updates current virus-related issues, including the frenetic evolution of the HIV virus, which could pose greater dangers in the future.

''En esta nueva edición, revisada y ampliada, de Virus y pandemias Ignacio López-Goñi --uno de los mejores y más expertos divulgadores de microbiología--, nos adentra en el mundo de la virología, y contesta a muchas de las cuestiones más apasionantes y desconocidas de una forma divertida, asequible y rigurosa.''--Back cover.

Discusses viruses, including their physical characteristics and some of the diseases they can cause.

The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton: a highly contagious spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies before causing them to burst into flames. There is no antidote. Harper Grayson was a nurse who treated hundreds of infected patients; now the telltale gold-flecked marks are on her skin. But Harper wants to live at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. Her husband Jakob becomes unhinged...

Diana O'Toole has a plan: be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She just knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the...

"Describes microscopic organisms that can cause illness and disease, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi"--

"In friendly, simple text, the most "common" virus, rhino virus (the common cold) explains how viruses work and spread to young children"--

Using the history of the Conficker computer worm as a centerpiece, the author discusses the war raging over the Internet between those who want to exploit it and those who aim to protect it.

Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep--and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. Terrified of spreading the virus, the company abandons its employees, leaving them afraid...