Cold plague

Summary: Pristine water--hidden for millions of years, untouched by pollution, and possessing natural healing powers--is found miles under Antarctic ice. The scientists who make this astonishing discovery stand to win worldwide acclaim and earn billions. While people around the world line up for a taste of the therapeutic water, a cluster of new cases of mad cow disease explodes in a rural French province. Dr. Noah Haldane and his World Health Organization team are urgently summoned. Fresh from a brush with a pandemic flu, Noah recognizes the deadliness of a prion--the enigmatic microscopic protein responsible for mad cow disease--that kills with the speed and ferocity of a virus. Despite intense international pressure to declare the outbreak a random occurrence, Noah suspects that factors other than nature have ignited the prion's spread among animals and people in France. Facing a spate of disappearances and unexplained deaths, Noah uncovers a conspiracy that stretches from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Beverly Hills, and from the North to the South Pole.

Record details

ISBN: 9781466800281
ISBN: 1466800283
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource
Edition: First mass market edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : A Tor Book, Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2008.
Copyright: ©2008

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