感染性阅读

First, Annie Jacobsen explored a fictional scenario for nuclear war. Now, she is looking at how the release of a bioweapon might play out. Jacob Aron digs in Book Biological War Annie Jacobsen Torva (UK); Dutton (US) A HIGH-SECURITY laboratory in Siberia, Russia, contains one of the most disturbing memorials to a scientist in existence. In 1988, Nikolai Ustinov was injecting guinea pigs with the Marburg virus, a pathogen that causes uncontrollable bleeding and death. He accidentally pricked himself with the syringe, and knew instantly he was doomed. Two weeks later, after Ustinov died alone in a quarantined room, his colleagues harvested his organs and isolated a new, deadlier strain of Marburg that had mutated in his body. …