Jeanne in the Books’s Reviews > Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them > Status Update

“Refusing to vaccinate puts at risk not just your children but the people in your communities who most require our protection. This is a substantial downside for people deciding to protect their kids via star signs and “good vibes” instead of medicine.”

(Horoscopes are, to be fair, a lot of fun.)

“I’m a Taurus! One of our personality traits is not believing horoscopes are real!”

JENNIFER WRIGHT 🤣

I studied Microbiology in uni so I know a lot about these diseases and for polio, Jonas Salk is merely remembered as someone who developed an injectable (saksak) vaccine while Sabin is known to developed the oral version of it, but this book expounds on their life and rivalry !!! IM SCREAMING IN THE POLIO CHAPTER!!

"However, in 1866, during the next outbreak of cholera, officials told citizens that they should just begin boiling their water. You know, just uh case John Snow was right."

The nineteenth century doctor Thomas Trotter likewise lamented: "So unnatural and perverted are fashionable opinions on this subject, that blooming complexion is thought to indicate low life and vulgarity in breeding. What a false standard for beauty: to prefer sickly sallow hue of the countenance to the roses of health! "

I love how the author writes