Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more. 2022 by Lydia Kang (Author), Nate Pedersen (Author) 129 ratings Kindle Edition £7.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover £14.95 5 Used from £11.10 19 New from £13.67 Audio CD £45.45 4 New from £41. Interspersed are origin stories of a different sort-how a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small village in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the Worlds Worst Diseases Hardcover 3 Jan. Learn the tragic stories of Patient Zeros throughout history, such as Mabalo Lokela, who contracted Ebola while on vacation in 1976, and the Lewis Baby on London's Broad Street, the first to catch cholera in an 1854 outbreak that led to a major medical breakthrough. A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of. Written in the authors' lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV-that combine "Patient Zero" narratives, or the human stories behind outbreaks, with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, and more. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the Worlds Worst Diseases (Hardback). From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery , Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us.
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