Why does every review praises this piece of shit?
I'm incredibly into viral pathology, and I've read everything I could get my hands on, from medical journals to lab protocols, and fiction (my favorite is Whiteout) and this stands out as the shittiest.
>terrible writting, choppy and unstructured
>reads like a grocery list
>claims to be pure fact
>key information about the disease, the patients, it's history, and the labs is exaggerated or plain wrong
Anyone read this? I'm kinda raging/venting.
Recommend anything on the subject please, fiction, non ficition, books or otherwise. I'm into hemorragic fevers the most, but I do enjoy other diseases.
>>7417019
I haven't read it. Do you have any journal/non-fiction recs?
I would read:
Janeway's Immunobiology
Murray's Medical Microbiology
Zaher's Pathology Made Ridiculously Simple
Robbins and Cotran
>>7417028
Most of the journals circle around lab protocols. I just check sources on wikipedia articles and find very interesting links.
>>7417048
Do you have names?
There's NEJM, Science, and Nature, of course. I like Journal of Experimental Medicine. Also AJCP.
shit b8 m8 i r8 0/8
>>7417050
I think I missused the term journal. I did not mean it as peer reviewed and such, but as verified accounts of situations involving the virus. I think the term would be papers or reports.
Honestly, I cant even remember the names. I'll see if I can find one where it described containment of a patient in mobile unit -an inflatable tent like thing that functions as a ICU ward.
>>7417058
I swear its not bait. No one with a proper appreciation for a good book can say that The Hot Zone is well written.
>They say that one day near Christmas he carried a sick bird into his house, where it died, perhaps in his hands. The bird may have been a weaverbird--no one knows--and it may have died of a Level 4 virus--no one knows.
> If the virus killed nine of ten people it infected and there was no vaccine or cure for it, you could see thepossibilities. The possibilities were global.
Page 38 >She had to get her assigned to work in a space suit in Level 4 areas. There aren't any vaccines for Level 4 hot agents. A Level 4 hot agent is a lethal virus for which there is no vaccine and no cure.
Page 38 >She couldn't proceed with any kind of work with Level 3 agents,because she couldn't tolerate the vaccinations
Page 41 > It was Level 4 work, which she was qualified to do, because she didn't need to be vaccinated
Page 136 > There was no vaccine for Ebola. There was no drug treatment for Ebola. That left only biocontainment
>>7417091
Oh, like case studies? Yeah, those are fun to read.
>>7417094
If this is the case, you might like Case Studies in Immunology. Most of it isn't viral but there are some viral cases.
>>7417094
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/204/suppl_3/S785.full
>>7417119
Go to the CDC website. You'll find a lot of things that you'll love.
>>7417019
>be fifteen
>open book
>read first chapter
>girl eats her own lips and dies
>put book down
>I'm freaking out man
>freak out for a week
>freak out for years, everytime I glance at the cover
I don't really read med stuff, but I did read and enjoy House of God by Samuel Shem
