Anyone who has read Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain should understand the concepts already explored in science fiction with respect to alien bacteria/viruses/etc. On a side note I am currently reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson which is less concerened about contamination then with much more broader changes man might induce by colonization.
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Anyone who has read Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain should understand the concepts already explored in science fiction with respect to alien bacteria/viruses/etc. On a side note I am currently reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson which is less concerened about contamination then with much more broader changes man might induce by colonization.