Award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe's research missions to the jungles of Africa and the rainforests of Borneo have earned him the nickname 'the Indiana Jones of virus hunters' - and helped the survival of humanity itself. In The Viral Storm, he tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by side through history; how deadly viruses like HIV, swine flu and bird flu almost wiped us out in the past; and why modern life has made our species vulnerable to the threat of global pandemic. His provocative vision will change the way we think about viruses, and our place in the natural world. 'Wolfe fights worldwide epidemics with an innovative, untraditional approach' NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 'The world's most prominent virus hunter . . . Nathan Wolfe's life conforms more to the pattern of a nineteenth-century explorer than to that of a twenty-first-century biologist' NEW YORKER 'Nathan Wolfe runs the CIA of infectious disease. The swashbuckling virologist is . . . our best hope to stop the next great epidemic before it starts' TIME '100 Most Influential People in the World, 2011'