Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fear or Terror on Every Countenance : Yellow Fever -- Of Mice and Men : Animal Models of Viral Infection -- Filling the Churchyard with Corpses : Smallpox and the Immune Response -- What Can Be Seen : from Viral Inclusion Bodies to Electron Microscopy -- The Turning Point : Cytopathic Effect in Tissue Culture -- A Torrent of Viral Isolates : the Early Years of Diagnostic Virology -- Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens -- Immunological Memory : Ingenuity and Serendipity -- To the Barricades : the Molecular Revolution -- The World Changed : The COVID-19 Pandemic.

"We are pleased with the reception of the first edition of To Catch a Virus, suggesting that there is a place in the literature for a book describing the history of how viruses are captured and identified. With a nod to To Catch a Thief, Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 classic mystery film, the first edition served as a chronicle of discovery and diagnosis. It was a history of diagnostic virology from the initial diagnosis of a human viral illness at the turn of the 20th century by Walter Reed and the Yellow Fever Commission to the emergence of molecular methods of diagnosis and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV/AIDS) epidemic more than a century later. We covered the first diagnostic virology lab at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center at the start of World War II. Diagnostic virology would emerge to sit astride the confluence of dynamic developments in science, public health struggles with epidemics and emerging diseases, and the intensive medical care of individual patients"--