Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues - Softcover

"A very readable and disturbing book. Dr Ryan writes well in a difficult technical field, weaving the technicalities of scientific history, medicine, molecular biology, and evolution into the human narratives of a sequence of epidemics, with victims, heroes and villains. John RG Turner. --New York Times Book Review

Extremely well written... Frank Ryan has the page-turning and spine-chilling ability of a good novelist. Matt Ridley. --The Sunday Telegraph

With gripping prose Frank Ryan shows that it can happen here. [We} have no magic immunity to contagious diseases that kill quickly, both young and old. Dr Ryan's imaginative theory of the role of killer viruses in nature's order may be the key to humanity's avoiding a catastrophic plague. Michael J Behe --Author of Darwin's Black Box

An account of humankind against microbe investigates the nature of plague viruses from diverse parts of the world and their implications, and presents a new theory about the origins of these deadly diseases