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100 1 $aPreston, Richard,$d1954-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86072898
245 14 $aThe demon in the freezer :$ba true story /$cRichard Preston.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c2002.
300 $a240 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 0 $aSomething in the air -- The dreaming demon -- To Bhola Island -- The other side of the moon -- A woman with a peaceful life -- The demon's eyes -- The anthrax skulls -- Superpox.
520 1 $a"The first major bioterror event in the United States - the anthrax attacks in October 2001 - was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons.
520 8 $aIn The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of USAMRIID, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense.".
520 8 $a"Peter Jahrling, the top scientist at USAMRIID, a wry virologist who cut his teeth on Ebola, one of the world's most lethal emerging viruses, has ORCON security clearance that gives him access to top-secret information on bioweapons. His most urgent priority is to develop a drug that will take on smallpox - and win.
520 8 $aEradicated from the planet in 1979 in one of the great triumphs of modern science, the smallpox virus now resides, officially, in only two high-security freezers - at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and in Siberia, at a Russian virology institute called Vector. But the demon in the freezer has been set loose. It is almost certain that illegal stocks are in the possession of hostile states, including Iraq and North Korea.
520 8 $aJahrling is haunted by the thought that biologists in secret labs are using genetic engineering to create a new superpox virus, a smallpox resistant to vaccines.".
520 8 $a"USAMRIID went into a state of Delta Alert on September 11 and activated its emergency response teams when the first anthrax letters were opened in New York and Washington, D.C. Preston reports, in unprecedented detail, on the government's response to the attacks and takes us into the ongoing FBI investigation. His story is based on interviews with top-level FBI agents.".
520 8 $a"Jahrling is leading a team of scientists doing controversial experiments with live smallpox, reawakening the virus at the CDC. Preston dramatizes this work and the conflict it has provoked within the scientific community, and he explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if Jahrling's bold experiment fails."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aJahrling, Peter B.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96802264
650 0 $aSmallpox$xPrevention$vPopular works.
650 0 $aBioterrorism$vPopular works.
650 0 $aBiological warfare$xResearch$zUnited States.
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