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The Demon in the Freezer

by Richard Preston

  • FINISHED
  • Finished May 2019
  • First published 2002

medicine disease

Preston tells the story of smallpox, how it was eradicated and why the virus samples that remain could be a danger.   He also covers the 2001 anthrax letters and the fear of bioterrorism.