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Your friend's email. Your email. I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter. Learn more. Your name. Note Your email address is used only to let the recipient know who sent the email. Flu Hunter: Unlocking the Secrets of a Virus. Rob Webster Figure. Drawing on experience from 50 years as a virologist, Webster provides a first-person account of what happened in each event, and why and how it happened. Webster points out that it was the heavy toll in human suffering caused by the devastating Spanish flu pandemic that jump-started influenza research and ultimately led the international scientific community to implement many clinical and public health improvements.
Two themes appear throughout the book. The first is that influenza is a quintessential One Health pathogen that can only be understood when studied in humans and other animals but especially in both its wild and domestic bird reservoirs. Throughout his career, Webster has championed this approach, which has led to many of the breakthroughs in how we approach influenza prevention and control today. The second theme is the need for collaboration and cooperation to successfully address the challenges posed by influenza, an idea Webster has lived out by mentoring and working with influenza scientists throughout the world.
Webster weaves anecdotes throughout the book about himself, his family, and his colleagues, among these a walk on an Australian beach littered with dead birds that led to his lifelong interest in influenza.
There are wonderful descriptions of his involvement in field expeditions to the Great Barrier Reef, horseshoe crab nesting sites on Delaware Bay, and Spitsbergen, Norway. However, some sections of the book focus so intently on describing influenza viruses or the work of other investigators that readers may be left wanting to hear more of the remarkable personal stories he has to tell.
The book does not entirely shy away from controversial topics. In the latter sections of the book, Webster addresses the pros and cons, from scientific and societal perspectives, of reconstituting the influenza virus. This section includes a discussion of gain of function research into the potential transmissibility of novel influenza viruses—research that might be used for the benefit or to the detriment of humankind.
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Premium Premium Rainfall, hailstorm in these states for next 2 days. Calcutta police are also facing the same manpower crisis. As on Wednesday evening, the number of active cases in Calcutta police was , including senior officers of the rank of additional commissioner, joint commissioners, several deputy commissioners and many officers in charge of police stations. The Calcutta police commissioner, who came in contact with several officers who later tested positive, is in isolation, sources said.
Bhowanipore police station, located on Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road, has reported maximum number of cases among all city police stations and has restricted the entry of visitors. With at least 26 police personnel affected by Covid in Bhowanipore police station, the station is being run by skeletal staff and has been barricaded. Anyone who went to report a crime or for seeking help, was attended outside the police station across the barricade.
A number of senior officers in CID are also affected by the virus including multiple deputy inspector generals, inspector generals and superintendents.
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