![]() ![]() NPR dubbed Quackery a best science book of 2017. Lydia Kang, he is the co-author of Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Workman, 2017) and Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World’s Worst Diseases (Workman, 2021). Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more. NATE PEDERSEN is a writer, librarian, and historian in Savannah, Georgia. How do they start How do they spread How. ![]() ![]() 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. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the Worlds Worst Diseases, by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen. ![]() 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. 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. 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. ![]()
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