The Superbug Sequence
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (908 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01BL0GWJ0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 132 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The novel is a thought-provoking parody about capitalism and the hazards of biotechnology.. Meanwhile, Bering begins his rogue operation by wreaking havoc at Aurora Pharmaceuticals, a small firm based in Boston. To execute his plans, Bering recruits a ruthless team of operatives who will target four pharmaceutical companies developing a new class of antibiotics. healthcare system and its government hostage.The Superbug Sequence begins in East Africa, where prominent science writer Terrence Landau contracts an affliction which he carries across the Atlantic right into the Oval Office. The cyber-attack seeks to uncover the firm's cache of diverse intellectual properties; namely, a group of molecular designs and specific instructions for how the individual molecules could be synthetically blended to behave as potent antibiotics.What Bering does not count on is the brilliance and tenacity of the investigative agents the U.S. Paula Fitzgerald, are asked to lead the investigation. Bering plans to steal those firms' molecular designs and retain sole ownership of what has become a scarce and valuable resource: drugs that have the potential to cripple the virulent MDROs (Multidrug-Resistant Organisms), holding the U.S. As The Superbug Sequence unfolds in Africa, the United States, and
Bookworm said A pharma bro as supervillain!. Today, doctors are facing a nightmare scenario: many disease-causing bacteria are developing resistance to all of our available antibiotics. If this trend continues, doctors will be as helpless as they were in the pre-antibiotic era. The one thing that could make this worse is greed. What would happen if some "pharma bro" enlisted the world's top cybercriminals to help him corner the market on the new antibiotics that would be needed to fight the multidrug resistant bacteria?