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In 2019, a new virus struck the human race, unleashing carnage on an unparalleled scale. Finding out where it came from and how it first infected people is a top concern, but early hopes that this would be a simple inquiry have been crushed. Nearly two years into the outbreak, the critical riddle of SARS-origin CoV-2's remains unsolved, if not worsening.

In this unusually informative book, a scientist and a writer team up to figure out how a virus that lives in bats in subtropical southern China traveled to people more than 1,500 kilometers away in Wuhan. They are perplexed by the fact that the virus left no indications of infection in market animals or wildlife, no chains of early cases in city visitors, no smoldering epidemic in a rural area, and no rapid adaption of the virus to its new host—humans.

Viral dives into the events of 2019 leading up to 2021, the details of what happened in animal markets and virology laboratories, the records and data concealed from view within archived Chinese theses and websites, and the clues that may be coaxed from the virus's genetic code.

As a result, the reader is drawn deeper and deeper into a metaphorical tunnel of mystery in this fascinating detective novel. One by one, the authors investigate intriguing tunnels only to discover that they are blind alleys until they come dangerously close to a shaft that leads to the light, kilometers beneath the surface.

Book details: Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

Author : Alina Chan, Matt Ridley
Language : English
ISBN : 006313912X
ISBN-13 : 9780063139121
Number of pages : 416 pages
Publisher : Harper
Date of Publication : November 16th 2021

About the authors: Matt Ridley

The Red Queen, The Origins of VIRTUE, GENOME, NATURE VIA NURTURE, FRANCIS CRICK, THE RATIONAL OPTIMIST, THE EVOLUTION OF EVERYTHING, and HOW INNOVATION WORKS are among Matt Ridley's best-selling works in 32 languages. He showed an ability to transform the complexities of genetic findings into an intelligible and engaging narrative in his best-selling book, Genome, and in his biography of Francis Crick. During the current pandemic, he has authored pieces about the virus's origins and genomes for the Wall Street Journal and The Spectator. On January 16, 2021, he published a column in the Wall Street Journal. He is a member of the United Kingdom's House of Lords.

Reviews: Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

"Alina Chan and Matt Ridley put up possibly the most thorough defense of the lab-leak scenario currently available." -- Wall Street Journal

"Viral assembles several speculative but devastating pieces of evidence in support of the lab-leak concept." -- Sunday Times (London)

"Journalists and armchair investigators alike were discovering Chan as a type of Holmes to our Watson in the coronavirus enigma." She crunched data twice as fast as we did, spotting minute things we'd missed, and became a go-to for anyone looking for non-spin explanations of the latest COVID-19 science. " -- Boston Globe Magazine