Germs Gone Wild: How the Unchecked Development of Domestic Biodefense Threatens America

by Kenneth King

Book Overview

King experienced the menace of bio-defense research firsthand when local government and business leaders tried to lure a new facility to his hometown in Kentucky. Researching the safety claims, he not only found many of them to be completely false, but was also horrified by the lack of oversight and the recklessness with which these labs genetically modified pathogens like smallpox, Ebola, and influenza without a care for what happened to the public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605982687
• ISBN13: 9781605982687
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.6" x 8.6"