patient zero a curious history of the world's worst diseases

patient zero a curious history of the world

Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more. Lydia Kang on Patient Zero: A Curious History of the Worlds Worst Diseases Riverside Chats. 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. From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreakshow they. 16 2021 by Lydia Kang (Author), Nate Pedersen (Author) 167 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 16.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.

that was an npr science friday best science book of 2017. shes also the alcoa author of quackery a brief history of the worst ways to kill cure everything. 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. Lydia Kang Nate Pedersen Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases Hardcover Nov. been published in jama the annuals annals of internal medicine and great weather for media. 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. 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 world's worst diseases