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The Pandemic Century
- One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
- Narrado por: John Lee
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In The Pandemic Century, a lively account of scares both infamous and less known, Mark Honigsbaum combines reportage with the history of science and medical sociology to artfully reconstruct epidemiological mysteries and the ecology of infectious diseases. We meet dedicated disease detectives, obstructive or incompetent public health officials, and brilliant scientists often blinded by their own knowledge of bacteria and viruses. Like man-eating sharks, predatory pathogens are always present in nature, waiting to strike; when one is seemingly vanquished, others appear in its place. These pandemics remind us of the limits of scientific knowledge, as well as the role that human behavior and technologies play in the emergence and spread of microbial diseases.
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- Past, Present, and Future
- De: Michael B. A. Oldstone
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies.
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very detailed, but very statistical
- De ekhensel15 en 01-12-19
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Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses
- From the Plague of Athens to COVID-19
- De: Heather E. Quinlan
- Narrado por: Samara Naeymi
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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It can come in waves - like tidal waves. It changes societies. It disrupts life. It ends lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives. Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to zombies. Their only known function is to replicate themselves, which can have devastating consequences on their hosts.
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Somewhat elemental
- De Bertha Watkins en 10-23-21
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Parasite Rex
- Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
- De: Carl Zimmer
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and the darkest shadows of science. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer takes listeners on a fantastic voyage into the secret universe of these extraordinary life forms that are not only among the most highly evolved on Earth, but make up the majority of life's diversity. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the parasite-riddled war zone of southern Sudan, Zimmer introduces an array of amazing creatures that invade their hosts, prey on them from within, and control their behavior.
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Fascinating and Horrible
- De David A en 10-09-18
De: Carl Zimmer
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Lab 257
- The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory
- De: Michael Christopher Carroll
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 13 h y 43 m
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Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds - and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the planet. Lab 257 blows the lid off the stunning true nature and checkered history of Plum Island. It shows that the seemingly bucolic island in the shadow of New York City is a ticking biological time bomb that none of us can safely ignore.
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More Politics Than Science
- De A Customer en 05-26-17
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The Fatal Strain
- On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic
- De: Alan Sipress
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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When avian flu began spreading across Asia in the early 2000s, it reawakened fears that had lain dormant for nearly a century. During the outbreak's deadliest years, Alan Sipress chased the virus as it infiltrated remote jungle villages and teeming cities and saw its mysteries elude the world's top scientists. In The Fatal Strain, Sipress details how socioeconomic and political realities in Asia make it the perfect petri dish in which the fast-mutating strain can become easily communicable among humans.
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- De Don en 01-10-10
De: Alan Sipress
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A Planet of Viruses [Third Edition]
- De: Carl Zimmer
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
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In 2020, an invisible germ - a virus - wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in deep caves miles underground.
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Quite interesting stories but not very deep
- De Samuel Lampa en 08-23-24
De: Carl Zimmer
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Viruses, Plagues, and History
- Past, Present, and Future
- De: Michael B. A. Oldstone
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies.
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very detailed, but very statistical
- De ekhensel15 en 01-12-19
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Pandemic Century
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- HH
- 12-04-21
Interesting take on various pandemics
Kinda thrown off by narrator's voice. Author added some interesting inormation regarding the various pandemics that I hadn't heard before.
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- Lester
- 04-10-20
The century group plagues for 21st people
Enjoyed the audio book and reminds me of why we need to focus as a race on the health of the entire human race
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- rholex
- 03-03-23
Pandemic solutions
We need to use common sense in reducing oandemic fatalities. Sanitation, hand, nasal and oral hygiene works. We need to keep beneficial microbiome in tact otherwise superbugs will have a chance to win.
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- Baz 12345
- 04-03-20
Pretty good
Its strength is detailing each outbreak, local story and circumstances.
It should have covered the Asian Flu of '57 and Hong Kong Flu of '68.
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- IowaGreyhound
- 06-08-20
Relevant book for today
As a microbiologist I enjoyed the book and found it scientifically sound. I was acquainted with most of the outbreaks discussed, but not psittacosis. I still picked up bits if information I had not heard before. written for the layperson in an interesting and informative manner. I hope someday the author adds information about COVID-19. I highly recommend this book.
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- Dinesh Kaushal
- 04-30-20
What the timing of the book
If you want to understand how pandemic spread, you must read this book. The book highlights how under funded our public health systems are.This book also explains how there are so many conspiracy theory is when a pandemic happens. This couldn’t be published at a better time than this.
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- Thomas
- 08-12-20
Terrifying Timing On This One-
Never mind that the book outlines fascinating science and the history of pandemics in relative times- The book seems like it was written for this time RIGHT NOW !
Not only are the main characters involved in COVID-19 a part of the story the meticulousness of the story applied to HIV/AIDS reminded me that I have been though more than my fair share of pandemics filled with bad decisions and paranoia-
So good that I purchased two printed copies: One to annotate to share with my students; One to give to my physician.
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- Rachel
- 10-28-21
Fear porn and false history
This book is an over simplified and reductionist view of history. It is a perpetuation of the corporate media's fear mongering and outdated germ theory. it gets so many things wrong about Polio, HIV, SARS and other phenomena. Unless you get off on hiding in your basement in crippling fear of imagined threats don't waste you time with this sensationalized twist on subjects that deserve so much more nuance and investigation.
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- DANIEL HENSLEY
- 12-16-20
Pretty good but too political.
This book was pretty good, but the author let his politics get in the way too much. He was quite eager to bash Reagan, Bush, and Trump, but lavished praise on Obama. He also gave a one sided perspective on the use of ZMapp during the 2014 outbreak of Ebola. This takes away from the book unfortunately.
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- Tom
- 04-25-20
So so
Too many off the topic inclusions for me. Some good facts but please keep to the point (who cares who knew who or what they ate in France when people needed to be solving the problems at hand),This book cold be whittled down to 10hrs of good listening with a good editor.
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