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THE GOOD VIRUS - TOM IRELAND KARTONIERT (TB)

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY WATERSTONES AND THE TIMES 'Superb ... This is luxury-class
science writing'DAILY TELEGRAPH  5* review'One of the best books of any genre that I've read in
2023  this superbly-written book ... will fascinate absolutely everyone'FORBES'A delight. To
learn more about phages is to discover fascinating details about a hidden world'NATURE
__________ Not all viruses are out to get us - in fact  the viruses that do us harm are vastly
outnumbered by viruses that can actually save lives. At every moment  within your body and all
around you  trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war. Countless times
per second  'good' viruses known as phages are infecting and destroying bacteria. These phages
are the most abundant life form on the planet and have an incredible power to heal rather than
harm. So why have most of us never even heard of them? The Good Virus reveals how personalities
power and politics have repeatedly crashed together to hinder our understanding of these weird
and wonderful life forms. We explore why Stalin's Soviet Union embraced using phages to fight
disease but the rest of the world shunned the idea. We find out why scientists only recently
realised phages are central to all ecosystems on Earth. And we meet the often eccentric phage
heroes who have shaped the strange history of this field and are unlocking its exciting future.
Faced with the threat of antibiotic-resistance  we need phages now more than ever. The Good
Virus celebrates what phages could do for us and our planet if they are at last given the
attention they deserve.

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