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- All fall down / by Voss, Louise.; Edwards, Mark.;
Kate and Paul learn that the virus they thought they stopped two years ago is loose in the city.- Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Maddox, Kate (Fictitious character : Voss); Virologists; Viruses;
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- The woman with the cure / by Cullen, Lynn,author.;
"She gave up everything - and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world's best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. The man who succeeds will be a god. But Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. She just wants the world to have a cure. Applying the same determination that lifted her from a humble background as the daughter of immigrants, to becoming a doctor--often the only woman in the room--she hunts down the monster where it lurks: in the blood. This discovery of hers, and an error by a competitor, catapults her closest colleague to a lead in the race. When his chance to win comes on a worldwide scale, she is asked to sink or validate his vaccine--and to decide what is forgivable, and how much should be sacrificed, in pursuit of the cure"--- Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Horstmann, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Millicent), 1911-; Poliomyelitis; Virologists;
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- The invisible siege : the rise of coronaviruses and the search for a cure / by Werb, Dan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An engrossing family history of coronaviruses and the modern-day scientific quest to conquer viral epidemics forever. The urgency of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic has fixed humanity's gaze on the present crisis. But the story of this pandemic extends far further back than many realize. In this engrossing narrative, epidemiologist Dan Werb traces the rising threat of the coronavirus family and the attempts by a small group of scientists who worked for decades to stop a looming viral pandemic. When virologist Ralph Baric began researching coronaviruses in the 1980s, the field was a scientific backwater-the few variants that infected humans caused little more than the common cold. But when a novel coronavirus sparked the 2003 SARS epidemic, and then the MERS epidemic a decade later, Baric and his allies realized that time was running out before a pandemic strain would make the inevitable jump from animals to human hosts. In The Invisible Siege, Werb unpacks the dynamic history and microscopic complexity of an organism that has wreaked cycles of havoc upon the world for millennia. Elegantly tracing decades of scientific investigation, Werb reveals how Baric's team of scientists hatched an audacious plan not merely to battle COVID-19 but to end pandemics forever. Yet as they raced to find a cure, they ran into a complicated nexus of science, ethics, industry, and politics that threatened to derail their efforts just as COVID-19 loomed ever larger. The Invisible Siege is an urgent and moving testament to the unprecedented scientific movement to stop COVID-19-and a powerful look at the infuriating factors that threaten to derail discovery and leave the world vulnerable to the inevitable coronaviruses to come"--- Subjects: COVID-19 (Disease); Epidemics; Virus diseases;
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- You bet your life : from blood transfusions to mass vaccination, the long and risky history of medical innovations / by Offit, Paul A.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Four months into the coronavirus pandemic, as the death count surged, the FDA made a risky decision: it approved an anti-malarial drug as a treatment for coronavirus, despite limited data on its efficacy or side effects. A month later, the FDA withdrew its recommendation, but by then, the damage had been done. The drug was ineffective and sometimes even lethal. The mistake was hardly a one-off. As virologist Paul. A. Offit shows in You Bet Your Life, from antibiotics and vaccines to x-rays and genetic engineering, risk, and our understanding of it, have shaped the course of modern medicine, paving the way for its greatest triumphs and tragedies. By telling the stories of the events--and of the frequent hypocrisy and cravenness of the characters at their center--Offit shows how risk, and failure, have driven innovation, and importantly, how by examining our mistakes we can make better medical predictions and decisions going forward. From the outlandish origins of blood transfusions, which began with humans receiving blood for barnyard animals, to the the disastrous debut of the first polio vaccine, and the backstabbing and infighting that surrounded early gene therapies, he captures the drama that surrounds medical research, the way ego and laziness can collide with science, and ultimately how those factors should inform what we choose to do and have done to us in the clinic. The history is fascinating in its own right, but the worldwide rush to create a coronavirus vaccine only makes learning from the lessons of history essential. Weighing the uncertainties of a treatment against its potential benefits is one of medicine's greatest ethical dilemmas, and Offit examines it from every angle. He explores not just how patients and their families respond to risk but how everyone from physicians and researchers to universities and regulators do, too, and how that ultimately determines what treatments are put forward. Not everyone has the same goal. And too often the patient's health is secondary. But as Offit shows, we can all minimize risk and failure by learning how to recognize conflicts of interest, to draw inferences from animal models, and to evaluate risk, even when we have limited data. Along the way, Offit asks who should decide what risks are acceptable, and who should pay when the results are fatal. In the end, however, Offit argues that we are gambling whatever we do--and that we need to take that seriously, whether we pursue a treatment or decide to do nothing at all. The answers aren't simple, and the outcomes are life or death. Examining these questions with the compassion of a pediatrician and the rigor of a scientist, Offit reminds us that we all have a role to play in ensuring that medicine upholds its very first principle: to do no harm"--- Subjects: Medical ethics.; Risk assessment.; Pharmacology, Experimental.; Drugs;
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- Arctic Circle: S2. by Lankinen, Juha,film director.; Hiltunen, Jussi,film director.; Kuustonen, Iina,actor.; Busel, Maxim,actor.; Leppilampi, Mikko,actor.; Viitala, Pihla,actor.; Ronkainen, Venla,actor.; Topic Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Iina Kuustonen, Maxim Busel, Mikko Leppilampi, Pihla Viitala, Venla RonkainenOriginally produced by Topic Studios in 2021.When a dying sex worker is found in a cabin with a deadly virus in her body, a Finnish officer must team up with a German virologist to track a serial killer and contain the virus before it becomes a full-blown pandemic.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.;
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- Arctic Circle: S1. by Salonen, Hannu,film director.; Schick, Clemens,actor.; Kuustonen, Iina,actor.; Kataja, Janne,actor.; Brückner, Maximilian,actor.; Viitala, Pihla,actor.; Ronkainen, Venla,actor.; Topic Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Clemens Schick, Iina Kuustonen, Janne Kataja, Maximilian Brückner, Pihla Viitala, Venla RonkainenOriginally produced by Topic Studios in 2019.When a dying sex worker is found in a cabin with a deadly virus in her body, a Finnish officer must team up with a German virologist to track a serial killer and contain the virus before it becomes a full-blown pandemic.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.;
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- Arctic Circle. by Salonen, Hannu,film director.; Lankinen, Juha,film director.; Hiltunen, Jussi,film director.; Schick, Clemens,actor.; Kuustonen, Iina,actor.; Kataja, Janne,actor.; Busel, Maxim,actor.; Brückner, Maximilian,actor.; Leppilampi, Mikko,actor.; Viitala, Pihla,actor.; Ronkainen, Venla,actor.; Topic Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Clemens Schick, Iina Kuustonen, Janne Kataja, Maxim Busel, Maximilian Brückner, Mikko Leppilampi, Pihla Viitala, Venla RonkainenOriginally produced by Topic Studios in 2019.When a dying sex worker is found in a cabin with a deadly virus in her body, a Finnish officer must team up with a German virologist to track a serial killer and contain the virus before it becomes a full-blown pandemic.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.; Crime.; Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.).;
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