Van G. Wilson is a Full Professor in the Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis in the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University Health Science Center since 1999, and also served 12 years as the college’s Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies. Van’s scientific career focused on viruses of the papovavirus group, including SV40, polyomaviruses, and papillomaviruses with funding from the NIH, the National Science Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and several other agencies. During that period Van published 71 scientific papers, 22 book chapters, 130 abstracts, and has edited 4 scientific books. Van has taught medical and graduate students for over 35 years and has lectured on his science around the world. Through these experiences, he has accumulated a broad, yet detailed, perspective about human-viruses interactions, from the molecular to the societal level. Van believes there are exciting, important, and interesting aspects of viral biologythat would be appealing and accessible to a general audience, and therefore he decided to create a book that is both educational and entertaining.

• Chapter 1: Vaccines in the 21st Century.- Chapter 2: Smallpox and Immunity: Success Precedes Science.- Chapter 3: Rabies: From Attenuation to Inactivation.- Chapter 4: Yellow Fever: America Goes to War.- Chapter 5: Influenza: An Elusive and Evasive Foe.- Chapter 6: Poliovirus – An Insidious Plague.- Chapter 7: Measles/Mumps/Rubella (MMR): The Childhood Trifecta.- Chapter 8: Hepatitis B Virus – Blood, Sex, and Drugs.- Chapter 9: Hepatitis A Virus – Feces, Food, and Fomites.- Chapter 10: Herpes Varicella Zoster – The Other Pox (Chickenpox).- Chapter 11: Rotavirus – The Democratic Virus.- Chapter 12: Human Papillomaviruses - An Ancient Enemy.- Chapter 13: SARS-Coronavirus-2 - The Unexpected Plague.- Chapter 14: Respiratory Syncytial Virus – A Shape-Shifting Adversary.- Chapter 15: The Fight Continues - Virus Without Vaccines.

Van G. Wilson is a Full Professor in the Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis in the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University Health Science Center since 1999, and also served 12 years as the college’s Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies. Van’s scientific career focused on viruses of the papovavirus group, including SV40, polyomaviruses, and papillomaviruses with funding from the NIH, the National Science Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and several other agencies. During that period Van published 71 scientific papers, 22 book chapters, 130 abstracts, and has edited 4 scientific books. Van has taught medical and graduate students for over 35 years and has lectured on his science around the world. Through these experiences, he has accumulated a broad, yet detailed, perspective about human-viruses interactions, from the molecular to the societal level. Van believes there are exciting, important, and interesting aspects of viral biologythat would be appealing and accessible to a general audience, and therefore he decided to create a book that is both educational and entertaining.

• Chapter 1: Vaccines in the 21st Century.- Chapter 2: Smallpox and Immunity: Success Precedes Science.- Chapter 3: Rabies: From Attenuation to Inactivation.- Chapter 4: Yellow Fever: America Goes to War.- Chapter 5: Influenza: An Elusive and Evasive Foe.- Chapter 6: Poliovirus – An Insidious Plague.- Chapter 7: Measles/Mumps/Rubella (MMR): The Childhood Trifecta.- Chapter 8: Hepatitis B Virus – Blood, Sex, and Drugs.- Chapter 9: Hepatitis A Virus – Feces, Food, and Fomites.- Chapter 10: Herpes Varicella Zoster – The Other Pox (Chickenpox).- Chapter 11: Rotavirus – The Democratic Virus.- Chapter 12: Human Papillomaviruses - An Ancient Enemy.- Chapter 13: SARS-Coronavirus-2 - The Unexpected Plague.- Chapter 14: Respiratory Syncytial Virus – A Shape-Shifting Adversary.- Chapter 15: The Fight Continues - Virus Without Vaccines.

Van G. Wilson is a Full Professor in the Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis in the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University Health Science Center since 1999, and also served 12 years as the college’s Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies. Van’s scientific career focused on viruses of the papovavirus group, including SV40, polyomaviruses, and papillomaviruses with funding from the NIH, the National Science Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and several other agencies. During that period Van published 71 scientific papers, 22 book chapters, 130 abstracts, and has edited 4 scientific books. Van has taught medical and graduate students for over 35 years and has lectured on his science around the world. Through these experiences, he has accumulated a broad, yet detailed, perspective about human-viruses interactions, from the molecular to the societal level. Van believes there are exciting, important, and interesting aspects of viral biologythat would be appealing and accessible to a general audience, and therefore he decided to create a book that is both educational and entertaining.

• Chapter 1: Vaccines in the 21st Century.- Chapter 2: Smallpox and Immunity: Success Precedes Science.- Chapter 3: Rabies: From Attenuation to Inactivation.- Chapter 4: Yellow Fever: America Goes to War.- Chapter 5: Influenza: An Elusive and Evasive Foe.- Chapter 6: Poliovirus – An Insidious Plague.- Chapter 7: Measles/Mumps/Rubella (MMR): The Childhood Trifecta.- Chapter 8: Hepatitis B Virus – Blood, Sex, and Drugs.- Chapter 9: Hepatitis A Virus – Feces, Food, and Fomites.- Chapter 10: Herpes Varicella Zoster – The Other Pox (Chickenpox).- Chapter 11: Rotavirus – The Democratic Virus.- Chapter 12: Human Papillomaviruses - An Ancient Enemy.- Chapter 13: SARS-Coronavirus-2 - The Unexpected Plague.- Chapter 14: Respiratory Syncytial Virus – A Shape-Shifting Adversary.- Chapter 15: The Fight Continues - Virus Without Vaccines.