FIGHTING AN INVISIBLE ENEMY, the story of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases

167pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2024

Foreword by Salim S. Abdool Karim.

The history of the South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases, from its foundations in the early twentieth century as the South African Institute for Medical Research and, later, as the National Institute for Virology.

"Fighting an Invisible Enemy is a wonderful narrative outlining the history of South African infectious disease research including pneumonia, polio, haemorrhagic fevers and Covid-19. It describes how the NICD has emerged as an African and world leader in communicable disease research" Helen Rees, Executive Director, Wits Reproductive and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand

Barry Schoub is the founding Executive Director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa. He is Emeritus Professor of Virology at the University of the Witwatersrand.