The Demon in the Freezer

Preston, Richard

ISBN 10: 0375419535 ISBN 13: 9780375419539

Verlag: Random House, 2002

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In a chilling new look at the world of bioterrorism, the best-selling author of The Hot Zone explores the return of smallpox, eradicated in 1979 but now returning in a deadlier, genetically engineered form, and the crusade of three doctors to not only uncover the mastermind of the 2001 anthrax attacks but also prepare for future bioterrorist actions. Simultaneous.

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;The bard of biological weapons captures
the drama of the front lines.”
-Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy
The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense.

Peter Jahrling, the top scientist at Usamriid, a wry virologist who cut his teeth on Ebola, one of the world’s most lethal emerging viruses, has ORCON security clearance that gives him acces

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• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375419535
• ISBN 13: 9780375419539
• Einband: CD de audio