The Resistance Factor — Celeste White

The year is 1999 and a deadly influenza pandemic is sweeping the globe. Chillingly, bacteria across the spectrum have become resistant to antibiotics at the same time. Genetics professor Nan Schulte receives cryptic communications that send her on a desperate and unconventional search to discover what underlies the microbial kingdom's escalating virulence. As societies throughout the world begin shutting down, and travel becomes increasingly difficult, Nan races to gather enough information to come up with a solution. In a war between humans and microbes, who will win?Informed by both hard science and consciousness research, The Resistance Factor asks compelling questions as relevant today as they were when the book was written twenty years ago. Eerily prescient and meticulously researched, it examines the myriad faces of disease as it presents in humanity. Fast-paced, heart-wrenching, suspenseful, The Resistance Factor will surprise and challenge you.