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Edited by Stephen S. Morse. 317 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-507444-0.

This important book examines the biologic, ecologic, and social factors responsible for the continuing emergence of new viral diseases. It is an update of a 1989 conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and Rockefeller University. Coverage is not encyclopedic, but selective, with illustrative examples presented in 28 chapters by 44 authors who represent a spectrum of academic, national, and international institutions. Only a few of the interesting concepts and facts in this book can be cited here.

In view of the current outbreak of hantavirus disease in the southwestern United States, the chapter on Hantaan (Korean hemorrhagic fever) . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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