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Fever!: The hunt for a new killer virus,

Author John Grant Fuller
Publisher Reader's Digest Press; distributed by Dutton
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ISBN / ASIN0883490129
ISBN-139780883490129
Sales Rank995,267
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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February 1969 - deadly unidentified virus reported from remote African missionary hospital, two American nurses stricken and died within 10 days. Doctors stymied by mysterious symptoms of the killer: soaring temperature, painful backache, swelling of the throat and neck, discolored skin! Latest victim airlifted to special isolation ward at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, blood samples rushed to Yale's Arborvirus Laboratory, all-out search launches to discover an antidote. U. S. Public Health officials alarmed, virus has the potential to decimate the whole population, aviation officials consider cancellation of all jet travel to critical world areas.