Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia Shah

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

Sonia Shah

288 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced

Description

Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how?Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territorie...

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informative 90%
reflective 54%
adventurous 18%
dark 18%
emotional 18%
challenging 9%
hopeful 9%
inspiring 9%

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