How far will viruses take us?

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Cover of the book The Mad History of Viruses © Humensciences

By: Caroline Lachowsky

50 min

How far will viruses take us?

How have such unusual other forms of life shaped our humanity?

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Let us ask ourselves about the viruses, the innumerable viruses with which we cohabit for the worse, as we know very well, in this period of pandemic, but not only ... Did you know that these are viruses that have allowed the mammals that we are to to make a placenta?

That some help us fight against other viruses?

So often enemies, sometimes allies, how can we better understand the immense and so strange family of viruses?

We know of tiny and much bigger ones, some parasitize each other, others jump the species barrier!

Unusual, fascinating and unclassifiable, are they living beings?

So many questions that occupy virologists in search of a vaccine against Covid, HIV, Ebola and so many other viral pathologies ...

With

, doctor in virology and YouTuber for

published by Humensciences and

, director of the Virus and Immunity Unit of the Institut Pasteur.

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