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Epidemics Books
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I Am Legend and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.00 — 136,114 ratings — published 1954
Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.93 — 132,649 ratings — published 2000
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,456 ratings — published 2004
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,015 ratings — published 2006
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.16 — 121,035 ratings — published 1994
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.01 — 852,031 ratings — published 2000
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.07 — 607,689 ratings — published 2014
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,987 ratings — published 1976
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,566 ratings — published 2005
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.03 — 64,517 ratings — published 1992
The Strain (The Strain #1)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.80 — 90,158 ratings — published 2009
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,375 ratings — published 2012
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.35 — 830,153 ratings — published 1978
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.02 — 311,719 ratings — published 1947
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.01 — 174,633 ratings — published 2001
The Last Town on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,691 ratings — published 2006
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,712 ratings — published 2006
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Open Yale Courses)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.39 — 987 ratings — published 2019
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.88 — 129,287 ratings — published 2018
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,965 ratings — published 2017
Nemesis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.86 — 18,121 ratings — published 2010
A Journal of the Plague Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.55 — 11,794 ratings — published 1722
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,181 ratings — published 1987
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,828 ratings — published 2001
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,013 ratings — published 2002
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.02 — 564,733 ratings — published 2006
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,646 ratings — published 1999
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.37 — 165,540 ratings — published 2025
The Way We Fall (Fallen World #1)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.69 — 8,062 ratings — published 2012
Salvation City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.22 — 1,189 ratings — published 2010
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.91 — 270,614 ratings — published 1969
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.18 — 334,999 ratings — published 1995
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.05 — 292,984 ratings — published 2022
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,737 ratings — published 2021
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,288 ratings — published 2020
The Dreamers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.63 — 43,125 ratings — published 2019
Journals of the Plague Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.95 — 250 ratings — published 1990
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,163 ratings — published 2004
The Scourge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,384 ratings — published 2016
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,043 ratings — published 2015
Lock In (Lock In, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.92 — 71,434 ratings — published 2014
The Black Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,470 ratings — published 1969
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,735 ratings — published 1994
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,949 ratings — published 1978
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.05 — 151,918 ratings — published 1954
Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.70 — 5,483 ratings — published 2001
The Things That Keep Us Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,380 ratings — published 2010
Pox: An American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.68 — 867 ratings — published 2011
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.54 — 133,815 ratings — published 2021
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,834 ratings — published 2020
“In one respect New Orleans has set an example for all the world in the fight against yellow fever. The first impression was the complete organization of the citizens and the rational and reasonable way in which the fight has been conducted by them. With a tangible enemy in view, the army of defense could begin to fight rationally and scientifically. The... spirit in which the citizens of New Orleans sallied forth to win this fight strikes one who has been witness to the profound gloom, distress, and woe that cloud every other epidemic city. Rupert Boyce, Dean of Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases, 1905”
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“Mary Mallon was born in 1869 in Cookstown, County Tyrone, then part of British-ruled Ireland. Like many of her countrymen, she immigrated to the United States at a young age, where she eventually found employment as a cook. During her lifetime, it was suspected that she has unintentionally (albeit perhaps negligently) infected over fifty people with typhoid.
Typhoid fever is a bacterial disease caused by gastrointestinal infection by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. In most patients, it causes an unpleasant but manageable disease that resolves fully. However, as many as one in twenty patients become chronic carriers, who continue to be infectious for their lifetimes. Mary Mallon was one of the unfortunate few who fell into that category. It is hypothesised today that she contracted typhoid at birth.
Her case, which involved prolonged quarantine on North Brother Island for almost half her life, raises complex moral and ethical questions about reconciling the interests of public health with the moral imperative to respect individual liberties and treat the sick (even if asymptomatic) with compassion.”
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
Typhoid fever is a bacterial disease caused by gastrointestinal infection by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. In most patients, it causes an unpleasant but manageable disease that resolves fully. However, as many as one in twenty patients become chronic carriers, who continue to be infectious for their lifetimes. Mary Mallon was one of the unfortunate few who fell into that category. It is hypothesised today that she contracted typhoid at birth.
Her case, which involved prolonged quarantine on North Brother Island for almost half her life, raises complex moral and ethical questions about reconciling the interests of public health with the moral imperative to respect individual liberties and treat the sick (even if asymptomatic) with compassion.”
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
