Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Nate Pedersen, Lydia Kang

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

Nate Pedersen, Lydia Kang

nonfiction history nature science emotional informative fast-paced

400 pages | first published 2021

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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 destr...
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