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03240cam a2200301 4500 |
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MiTN |
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20190729102651.0 |
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031218s2002 nyua 000 0 eng u |
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0375508562 |
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MiTN |
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EY8Z |
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| Classification number |
RA644.S6 |
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P74 2002 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Preston, Richard, |
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1954- |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The demon in the freezer : |
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a true story / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Richard Preston. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Random House, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2002. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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240 p. : |
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ill. ; |
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24 cm. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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Something in the air -- The dreaming demon -- To Bhola Island -- The other side of the moon -- A woman with a peaceful life -- The demon's eyes -- The anthrax skulls -- Superpox. |
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Publisher description: The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense. Peter Jahrling, the top scientist at Usamriid, a wry virologist who cut his teeth on Ebola, one of the world's most lethal emerging viruses, has ORCON security clearance that gives him access to top secret information on bioweapons. His most urgent priority is to develop a drug that will take on smallpox-and win. Eradicated from the planet in 1979 in one of the great triumphs of modern science, the smallpox virus now resides, officially, in only two high-security freezers-at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and in Siberia, at a Russian virology institute called Vector. But the demon in the freezer has been set loose. It is almost certain that illegal stocks are in the possession of hostile states, including Iraq and North Korea. Jahrling is haunted by the thought that biologists in secret labs are using genetic engineering to create a new superpox virus, a smallpox resistant to all vaccines. Usamriid went into a state of Delta Alert on September 11 and activated its emergency response teams when the first anthrax letters were opened in New York and Washington, D.C. Preston reports, in unprecedented detail, on the government's response to the attacks and takes us into the ongoing FBI investigation. His story is based on interviews with top-level FBI agents and with Dr. Steven Hatfill. Jahrling is leading a team of scientists doing controversial experiments with live smallpox virus at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where Jahrling is reawakening smallpox and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if his last bold experiment fails. |
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Jahrling, Peter B. |
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Smallpox |
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Prevention |
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Popular works. |
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Bioterrorism |
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Popular works. |
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Biological warfare |
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Research |
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United States. |
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Anthrax. |
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