Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

by Andrey Shaw and Arup Chakraborty

Book Overview

How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work. Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics. History is replete with references to plagues, pestilence, and contagion, but the devastation wrought by pandemics had been largely forgotten by the twenty-first century. Now, the enormous human and economic toll of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 disease...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262542382
• ISBN13: 9780262542388
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"