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By Christopher Wills. 318 pp., illustrated. Reading, Mass., Addison–Wesley, 1996. $24. ISBN 0-201-44235-3.

The subject of this book has been covered, with varying degrees of alarm, in newspaper stories, fiction, and films. The message has been that exotic viruses are incubating and swarming around the world as "doomsday agents in waiting." Given the right circumstances of climate, poverty, vulnerability of the population, and media for transmission — let's disregard the fanciful malevolence of demented scientists — these viruses can spread disease anywhere and everywhere at any time, with lethal results.

Two recent books have taken a reassuringly anti-apocalyptic stance in opposition to this popular view. One is Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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