Epidemics


Fever 1793
I Am Legend and Other Stories
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Ghost Map
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Station Eleven
Plagues and Peoples
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
The Strain (The Strain #1)
The Stand
Year of Wonders
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The Last Town on Earth
Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Living Medicine by Lina ZeldovichThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAnd the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
Books for the time of Pandemics
140 books — 43 voters

Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad YunusDebunking Holocaust Denial Theories by James MorcanField Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
Wicked Problems
3 books — 2 voters
Out of the Cage by Matthew LightfootThe Premonition by Michael   LewisTen Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed ZakariaA State of Fear by Laura DodsworthThe Plague Year by Lawrence Wright
Coronavirus Reading List
158 books — 17 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
History of disease
168 books — 72 voters
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse AndersonWhat Is the Coronavirus Disease COVID-19? by Michael BurganLife on the Line by Emma GoldbergThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAlone Together by Garth Stein
Staff Picks: Pandemic Reads
100 books — 6 voters

Se pensarmos na Europa Oriental e na Ocidental como corpos-organismos distintos, o Deméter poderia ser então o vetor que carrega o patógeno-vampiro e o introduz no corpo deste novo hospedeiro suscetível, sem qualquer imunidade. Nem mesmo o vetor, entretanto, resiste à virulência do patógeno; ele próprio sucumbe à doença que inocularia, funcionando também como uma espécie de microcosmo do que poderia vir a acontecer caso o vampiro obtivesse sucesso em sua replicação: um cenário de desastre apoca ...more
Thiago Sardenberg, À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas

Studies show that epidemics caused by viruses began when the human lifestyle changed from hunter-gatherer to agriculture over eleven thousand years ago. Due to a newfound ability to live in one place, humans began investing energy into their homes and land — activities that required many people to work in close proximity to each other.
Donna Maltz, Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics

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