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zur Hausen, Harald
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NATHAN WOLFE is the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University and the founder and CEO of Global Viral Forecasting, an independent research institute devoted to early detection and control of epidemics. Wolfe received his bachelor’s degree at Stanford and his doctorate in Immunology and Infectious Diseases from Harvard. He has held professorships at John Hopkins and UCLA, has published more than 80 articles and chapters and has been awarded research support totaling over $30 million in grants and contracts. Wolfe has been published in or profiled by Nature, Science, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, Wired, Discover, Scientific American, NPR, Popular Science, Seed, and Forbes. He was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship in 1997 and the prestigious NIH Director’s Pioneer Award in 2005. Wolfe has been elected a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, and in 2011 was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. He lives in San Francisco.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wolfe, Nathan.
The viral storm : the dawn of a new pandemic age / Nathan Wolfe. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: “The ‘Indiana Jones’ of virus hunters reveals the complex interactions between humans and viruses, and the threat from viruses that jump from species to species”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-8050-9194-6 (hardback)
1. Viruses. 2. Virus diseases. 3. Molecular evolution. 4. Human evolution. I. Title.
QR360.W65 2011
616.9'1—dc22 2011011321
First Edition 2011
eISBN 978-1-4299-7359-5