Ebola is distantly related to measles, mumps, and rabies. It is also related to certain pneumonia viruses: to the parainfluenza virus, which causes colds in children, and to the respiratory syncytial...
And sometimes he thought of a favorite saying, a remark by Louis Pasteur, Chance favors the prepared mind.
You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.
The rain forest has its own defenses. The earth’s immune system, so to speak, has recognized the presence of the human species and is starting to kick in. The earth is attempting to rid itself of an i...
Virus. In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath.
If people learned what this virus could do, there would be traffic jams heading out of Reston, with mothers screaming at television cameras, Where are my children?
But no one could control Mark Littleberry; the man was fundamentally uncontrollable.
To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.
A good businessman is hard to bruise and quick to heal.