EAN: 9781523513291

PATIENT ZERO - LYDIA KANG NATE PEDERSON GEBUNDEN

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. 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.

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