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Author Chan, Alina.

Title Viral : the search for the origin of COVID-19 / Alina Chan and Matt Ridley.

Edition First U.S. edition.
Publication Info. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2092975~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  616.2414 CHA    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  616.2414 CHA    AVAILABLE
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Description 404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-390) and index.
Contents The mystery -- The copper mine -- Viruses -- The Wuhan whistleblowers -- The seafood market -- The pangolin papers -- Bats and the virus hunters -- Laboratory leaks -- Gain of function -- The furin cleavage site -- The other eight -- Popsicle origins and the World Health Organization -- Spillover -- Accident -- The origin of Covid-19 -- Truth will out -- Timeline.
Summary 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.
Subject COVID-19 (Disease) -- Etiology.
COVID-19 (Disease)
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Added Author Ridley, Matt, author.
ISBN 9780063139121
006313912X
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