Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-116) and index.
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Foreword / by Judy Diamond and Charles Wood -- Introduction: "A contagious living fluid", tobacco mosaic virus and the discovery of the virosphere -- Old companions. The uncommon cold: how rhinoviruses gently conquered the world -- Looking down from the stars: influenza's never-ending reinvention -- Rabbits with horns: human papillomavirus and infectious cancer -- Everywhere, in all things. The enemy of our enemy: bacteriophages as viral medicine -- The infected ocean: how marine phages rule the sea -- Our inner parasites: endogenous retroviruses and our virus-riddled genomes -- The viral future. The young scourge: human immunodeficiency virus and the animal origins of diseases -- Becoming an American: the globalization of West Nile virus -- Predicting the next plague: ebola virus and the many others like it -- The long goodbye: the delayed oblivion of smallpox -- Epilogue: The alien in the water cooler: giant viruses and the definition of life.
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