My new book, Virusphere, has been recognized internationally as relevant to understanding the COVID pandemic. I am a consultant physician and evolutionary virologist.

This is why I have been asked to help media and readers all over the world to explain and understand what is happening. Virusphere already explained the basis of COVID. But I thought it might help further if I revised the intro and two of the chapters to deal specifically with what is going on. Thankfully, my publisher was helpful and that revised narrative is now available as a kindle on amzon.co.uk. More information is available at www.fprbooks.com.

I would like to thank my editors, Hazel Eriksson and Myles Archibald at Harpercollins and my agent, Jonathan Pegg, for their help in this.

VIRUSPHERE: Ebola, AIDS, COVID-19, and the Hidden World of the Virus.