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Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear 1999 Thriller Hardcover with Dust Jacket 1st Ed Only 1 available Condition: Used Greg Bear's powerfully written, brilliantly inventive novels combine cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters, illuminating dazzling new technologies -- and their dangers. Now, in Darwin's Radio, Bear draws on state-of-the-art biological and anthropological research to give us an ingeniously plotted thriller that questions everything we believe about human origins and destiny -- as civilization confronts the next terrifying step in evolution. A mass grave in Russia that concea...

Applications pouring into CDC's 'disease detective' program By: Stephanie Stone, Scripps National Correspondent Posted at 3:26 PM, Feb 22, 2021 and last updated 2021-02-22 18:30:22-05 Want to be a disease detective? Applications are pouring in for a little-known program within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Officials are expecting more interest this year, and they’re hoping it continues to highlight the importance of public health. “Over the years, we’ve brought in 1500 future physicians and 600 future veterinarians,” says Kelly Cordeira. ...

Credit: The White House As a new federal administration begins to take shape under President Joe Biden, a growing list of University of California-affiliated alumni and faculty have been nominated or appointed to positions in the new government. California native Kamala Harris, a graduate of UC Hastings College of Law, is undoubtedly the most prominent of these new faces. With her swearing-in on Jan. 20, she becomes the first UC-affiliated person to ever hold the vice presidency. Dozens of UC-affiliated people, representing virtually all UC campuses, have been tapped to serve in the new admin...

Work Programme 2021 of the EU Initiative on Health Security News story On 27 March 2020, the European Commission Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) and ECDC signed an agreement for the implementation of the EU Initiative on Health Security. This will enable tailor-made support to strengthen public health systems’ preparedness and response capacities of the European Union candidate and potential candidate and the European Neighbourhood Policy partner countries, and improve health security in the European neighbourhood. ECDC has develo...

In early December 2019, I sat in a conference room at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, listening to its director, Dr. Robert Redfield, answer a question: Is America ready for another major infectious disease like Ebola or the Zika virus?   Redfield's response reiterated what most public health experts knew, but coming from him, it was jarring. "It’s not a secret,” he said. “Our nation is not prepared for a flu pandemic.”   He was certain such a pandemic would one day arrive, and although he couldn't foresee when, he knew it would be bad: “It’s goi...