Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

Cover Art for 9781523513291, Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Kang Md, Lydia, Nate Pedersen
ISBN: 9781665111195
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 26 October, 2021
Format: MP3 Audio
Language: English
Editions:
7 other editions of this product

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks ,dash; how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the authorsosquo; lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus ndash; smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV adash; that combine 'Patient Zero' narratives, or the human stories behind outbreaks, with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, and more. 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 Londonnsquo;s Broad Street, the first to catch cholera in an 1854 outbreak that led to a major medical breakthrough. Interspersed are origin stories of a different sort ddash; how a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small village in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more.

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