iDarePrufrock - , reviewed on 1/3/2006

The author's discussion of select emerging and reemerging diseases, such as the hemorrhagic fevers and AIDS, was enthralling. The aggressive symbiont hypothesis is an interesting concept, but I felt that Ryan's presentation of the possible coevolution of viruses with their new human hosts to be incomplete. Even so, it's absolutely fascinating to think that the viruses that are responsible for emerging diseases like AIDS might someday coevolve with humans and lose their virulence.

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