Let’s discuss: “The Good Virus” by Tom Ireland

If viruses had a union, their first grievance would be media coverage.

For billions of years, they’ve been helping grow life on Earth, moving genes around, honing evolution, and generally doing the kind of behind-the-scenes biology that made life possible.

But no. A few headline-grabbing creeps show up, cause a pandemic, and suddenly the entire virus community is treated like it showed up drunk to Thanksgiving.

This book takes us through medical rivalries, Soviet research labs, forgotten cures, antibiotic resistance, and the strange possibility that the future of medicine may involve custom virus cocktails designed to take out bacterial villains one tiny assassin at a time. It’s science, history, medicine, and monster movie all crammed into one gloriously weird little book.