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Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
by Judith Miller, et. al.If you liked Germs, try these:
by Michael C. Carroll
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsIn the shadow of New York City lies an unimposing 840-acre island unidentified on most maps. Lab 257 takes you deep inside Plum Island's laboratories and presents startling revelations including virus outbreaks, biological meltdowns and the connections between Plum Island, Lyme disease and the West Nile virus.
by John M. Barry
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsAn epic history of the deadliest plague in human history - the great flu epidemic of 1918, which killed seven times as many people as died in the First World War.
by Richard Preston
Published Aug 2003
Read ReviewsA team of leading US scientists are doing controversial experiments with live smallpox virus at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where they are reawakening smallpox and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if this last bold experiment fails.
by Jared Diamond
Published Apr 1999
Read Reviews'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years.'
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