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4 starsA thoroughly enjoyable, visually appealing, & approachable tour through the history of several major infectious diseases affecting humans. I learned new things & found this book very interesting & easy to read. [What I liked:] •The pictures, graphics, and informative sidebars help break up the text into digestible chunks & provide appealing visual aids. The layout makes the book easy to read. •Reading about the 1900 Bubonic Plague outbreak in San Francisco reminded me so much of Covid-19:...
I received a copy from Workman Publishing Company through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.If you’re interested in reading about epidemics, then this is the book for you! Each short chapter presents a different disease and the epidemic that quickly followed their discoveries. While the true patient zero for any of the diseases are unknown, the patient zeroes presented here are people who are well-known to be early accidental spreaders of the disease they contracted.I picked up this boo...
This was quite an interesting read!How a lot of diseases start, what caused them to spread. Especially how this book details COVID-19 coming from China, I thought that this was a fascinating read of world history and public health. Would recommend!4.1/5
Misleading title. Chapters are disjointed and not cohesive; there is no sense to the order they are in. And what the heck was the last chapter?? I would have preferred if they had chosen just a few topics to really go in depth.
Such a timely and thought-provoking read from a 360-degree perspective. This should be required reading.
Well written, comprehensive book. Easy to read but does not gloss over important information. Could be appreciated by interested high-schoolers and other non-scientific readers.
Interesting, but went off the rails with its political angle on COVID.
Fascinating, but more on the overview side of things rather than a deeper examination of the various diseases.
A fascinating history of the world’s worst diseases! The author covers the origin of each disease presented along with spread, impact, and containment and still keeps the information interesting. The focus is on breadth of infectious diseases rather than depth, which makes the book feel a bit like a manageable primer for the field.
Such an amazing book. This book is about the worlds worst diseases. The infection, the spread and the containment. It’s easy and entertaining to read. That said, yes it will make you cringe, want to check your vaccination records and send you reeling in fear from every cough, surface contact and open container of food to which you are exposed. Each chapter starts with an innocent idilic story. An Italian boy reclines under a tree in the country side and then fights off a mad dog which bites him
A very accessible, well-illustrated history of pandemics, outbreaks, and other serious diseases. This book is great place to start for those who would like to know more about how diseases are spread and how humans have fought to eradicate and contain outbreaks throughout history. Besides the expected coronaviruses, bubonic plague, and the 1918 flu pandemic, we learn about mad cow disease, HIV, rabies, and more. We also meet some of the people who were superspreaders (like Typhoid Mary) or at lea...
Thanks to Netgalley and Workman Publishing Company for the ARC of this in exchange for my honest review. This was really interesting and easy to follow. There was a good number of relevant illustrations, a decent variety of illnesses discussed, and it had a very story like quality - we looked at the individuals and areas that an illness was being spread - it wasn’t dry or academic feeling, and I think anyone interested in infectious diseases and how they get started and spread, or just intereste...
PATIENT ZERO: A BRIEF HISTORY of the SCIENCE STORIES BEHIND THE WORLD'S WORST DISEASESBY: LYDIA KANG AND NATE PEDERSENThis was a fascinating non-fictional treatise that chronicles how various diseases have been spread throughout the history of mankind. It opened my eyes to how Covid19 isn't the first time that pandemics have been spread throughout populations of people. I had previously heard about the Spanish flu back in 1918 that claimed a vast number of lives. In my mind that was the only dis...
