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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 destroy them before they destroy us.
Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters include gripping 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.
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. 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. Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"[A] rich and thought-provoking book... It's also a profound reconsideration of our common understanding of our most famous stories of sickness and science." —Salon.com
“A thorough and morbidly funny study of some of the world’s deadliest diseases… Readers will be swept away by this energetic and enlightening survey.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A fascinating foray into the etiology of fevers, flus, and other foul febrilities.” —James Nestor, New York Times bestselling author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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- One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
- De: Mark Honigsbaum
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic, through the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last one hundred years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms.
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Pretty good
- De Baz 12345 en 04-03-20
De: Mark Honigsbaum
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Influenza
- The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
- De: Dr. Jeremy Brown
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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On the 100th anniversary of the devastating pandemic of 1918, Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and how close are we to finding a cure?
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Important read
- De Kathryn C. en 12-21-18
De: Dr. Jeremy Brown
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The Moth in the Iron Lung
- A Biography of Polio
- De: Forrest Maready
- Narrado por: Forrest Maready
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
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A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease - polio - told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere. Doctors, parents, and health officials were at a loss to explain why this formerly unheard-of disease began paralyzing so many children. Why did this disease start to become such a horrible problem during the late 1800s? Why did it affect children more often than adults? Why was it originally called teething paralysis by mothers and their doctors?
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Root Cause
- De Circlekay1 Gulfport MS en 10-24-19
De: Forrest Maready
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Pandemic
- Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
- De: Sonia Shah
- Narrado por: Sonia Shah
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera - one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens - and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs.
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Chronic
- The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Healthy Again
- De: Steven Phillips MD, Dana Parish, Kristin Loberg
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt, Thomas Allen
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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In this timely book, Steven Phillips, MD, and his former patient, Sony singer-songwriter Dana Parish, reveal striking evidence that a broad range of common infections, from COVID-19 to Lyme and many others, cause a variety of autoimmune, psychiatric, and chronic conditions. Chronic explores the science behind what makes them difficult to diagnose and treat, debunks widely held beliefs by doctors and patients alike, and provides solutions that empower sufferers to reclaim their lives.
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A must read book
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De: Steven Phillips MD, y otros
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An Epidemic of Absence
- A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases
- De: Moises Velasquez-Manoff
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 17 h y 6 m
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An Epidemic of Absence asks what will happen in developing countries, which, as they become more affluent, have already seen an uptick in allergic disease: Will India end up more allergic than Europe? Velasquez-Manoff also details a controversial underground movement that has coalesced around the treatment of immune-mediated disorders with parasites. Against much of his better judgment, he joins these do-it-yourselfers and reports his surprising results.
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The point of view from a Veterinarian immunologist
- De rtgymnast en 11-03-17
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Happy Accidents
- Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century
- De: Morton A. Meyers
- Narrado por: Richard Waterhouse
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the 20th century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In discussing medical breakthroughs, Dr. Morton Meyers makes a cogent, highly engaging argument for a more creative, rather than purely linear, approach to science. And it may just save our lives!
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Don't waste your money!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-20-16
De: Morton A. Meyers
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COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science
- De: Marc Siegel MD
- Narrado por: Peter Van Norden
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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COVID-19 has stolen our security and our nation's peace of mind. There is a pandemic virus as well as a crippling epidemic of fear sweeping America. Why? The answer, according to nationally renowned health commentator Dr. Marc Siegel, is that we already lived in an artificially created culture of fear that was just waiting to be unleashed. In COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science, Siegel identifies three major catalysts of the culture of fear - government, the media, and our own psyche.
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Informative and well sourced
- De A. Powers en 10-12-21
De: Marc Siegel MD
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10% Human
- How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
- De: Alanna Collen
- Narrado por: Cat Gould
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, you will carry the equivalent weight of five African elephants in microbes. You are not an individual but a colony. Until recently, we had thought our microbes hardly mattered, but science is revealing a different story, one in which microbes run our bodies and becoming a healthy human is impossible without them.
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Must read for anyone that wants to be healthy
- De T. Kalinowski en 06-05-21
De: Alanna Collen
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Pale Rider
- The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
- De: Laura Spinney
- Narrado por: Paul Hodgson
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In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus travelled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted - and often permanently altered - global politics, race relations, and family structures while spurring innovation in medicine, religion, and the arts.
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A Predilection for Those in the Prime of Life
- De Cynthia en 02-12-18
De: Laura Spinney
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Seven Modern Plagues
- And How We Are Causing Them
- De: Mark Jerome Walter
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 5 h y 11 m
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According to veterinarian and journalist Mark Walters, we are contributing to - if not overtly causing - some of the scariest epidemics of our time. Through human stories and cutting-edge science, Walters explores the origins of seven diseases: Mad Cow Disease, HIV/AIDS, Salmonella DT104, Lyme Disease, Hantavirus, West Nile, and new strains of flu. He shows that they originate from manipulation of the environment, from emitting carbon and clear-cutting forests to feeding naturally herbivorous cows “recycled animal protein.”
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Frightening, truthful and a real eye opener
- De RobJD en 02-23-15
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep
- A Medical Mystery
- De: D.T. Max
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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For 200 years, a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter. Across Europe, millions of sheep rub their fleeces raw before collapsing. What these strange conditions share is their cause: prions.
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A great scientific mystery
- De David en 11-04-06
De: D.T. Max
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 19 h y 26 m
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In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision between modern science and epidemic disease.
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Great book but very disturbing...
- De Tim en 01-15-09
De: John M. Barry
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The Fever
- Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
- De: Sonia Shah
- Narrado por: Maha Chehlaoui
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names - and opened their pocketbooks - in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren’t we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we’ve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them?
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Solid but not amazing account of malaria
- De S. Yates en 04-11-16
De: Sonia Shah
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De: Richard Preston
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Patient Zero
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- aaron
- 01-23-22
Excellent Pop Science Book
For what it is, another popular science book on another very timely and VERY interesting subject, the book nails the mark. The narrator is excellent and the stories/histories of each of the relevant outbreaks is intriguing. Great book.
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- Margaret Sells
- 12-15-21
Great info
Great info inside a great story. Will give this audio book as a gift to my son who thinks he knows it all.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-14-22
Timely, informative, entertaining but not overwhelming
As my province enters it’s 7th wave of COVID and I currently know more people dealing with active infections than ever before, I _really_ appreciated that this was not a chronological description of disease outbreaks.
Lots of information on areas where I only had surface levels of knowledge. I enjoyed it a lot.
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- Amanda
- 02-01-24
utterly fascinating!
what a fantastic book! I learned so much and was horrified by so much (couldn't listen to the covid chapter because it made me upset. as well as the native Americans being decimated by the various awful diseases white people brought over) but beside that. I couldn't get enough. I hope to find more books by these authors.
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- Tana
- 06-13-22
Timely and Historic
Should be required reading for all whiners of our current time. You might learn something.
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- Doug Clyde
- 07-21-22
Can’t listen to the reader
I was excited to listen to this, but had to turn off- the reader sounds like a Google-generated robot. So flat, odd enunciation. Made listening annoying rather than pleasant
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- Greg
- 08-02-22
Just ok
Scattered interesting tidbits throughout but somehow political beliefs get included to the detriment of the content. Also, the pronunciation of some of the medical terms is awful.
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