Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity by Chakraborty, Arup K.

Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780262542388)

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Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity by Chakraborty, Arup K.

Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

$19.95
Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity by Chakraborty, Arup K.

Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work.

Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics. History is replete with references to plagues, pestilence, and contagion, but the devastation wrought by pandemics had been largely forgotten by the twenty-first century. Now, the enormous human and economic toll of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 disease offers a vivid reminder that infectious disease pandemics are one of the greatest existential threats to humanity. This book provides an accessible explanation of how viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work-- concepts that are a foundation for our public health policies.

Author: Arup K. Chakraborty, Andrey Shaw
ISBN-10: 0262542382
ISBN-13: 9780262542388
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d

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By Arup K. Chakraborty
By Arup K. Chakraborty
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Arup K. Chakraborty is Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Physics and Chemistry at MIT, where he also served as the Founding Director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. He is a founding member of the Ragon Institute. Andrey S. Shaw, an immunologist, is Staff Scientist in Immunology and Oncology at Genentech and holds adjunct professorships at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of California, San Francisco. Illustrator Philip J. S. Stork is a Professor at the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health and Science University.

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