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By Frank Ryan. 430 pp., illustrated. Boston, Little, Brown, 1997. $24.95. ISBN 0-316-76383-7.

I read Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues while flying across the Pacific to study the 40th consecutive epidemic of a viral hemorrhagic fever. This one has killed tens of thousands of children and hospitalized millions of others. I paged quickly through the book to find the story of the dengue virus, a symbiont of subhuman primates that emerged as a "new" virus in the 1950s to become the cause of the most important viral hemorrhagic fever in the world. But the dengue story was told as a footnote to accounts of diseases with higher fatality rates but fewer . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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