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The Next Pandemic
The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against HumankindÕs Gravest Dangers | Ali Khan
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An inside account of the fight to contain the world’s deadliest diseases--and the panic and corruption that make them worse Throughout history, humankind’s biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but when a new threat--Ebola, SARS, Zika--seems imminent, we send our best and bravest doctors to contain it. People like Dr. Ali S. Khan. In his long career as a public health first responder--protected by a thin mask from infected patients, napping under nets to keep out scorpions, making life-and-death decisions on limited, suspect information--Khan has found that rogue microbes will always be a problem, but outbreaks are often caused by people. We make mistakes, politicize emergencies, and, too often, fail to imagine the consequences of our actions. The Next Pandemic is a firsthand account of disasters like anthrax, bird flu, and others--and how we could do more to prevent their return. It is both a gripping story of our brushes with fate and an urgent lesson on how we can keep ourselves safe from the inevitable next pandemic.
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CoffeeK8
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An engaging book about how pandemics start, how they are treated, what we can do better and what will happen next.

Amiable Ooh, this is right up my alley! I have a weird fascination with epidemic books. Stacking! 4y
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CoffeeK8
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In honor of Halloween I‘m listening to a different type of scary #audiobook 😷

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HoneyBeeLee
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Very informative book. Eye opening about the spread of diseases and how the World Health Organization handles everything.

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SMM
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So, so good!! Loved the science and the story....."gentlemen, it's the microbes who will have the last word."

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Cookierooks
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"Gentlemen, it is microbes that will have the last word." L. Pasteur

# onceabionerdalwaysabionerd

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Cookierooks
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truth.

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Cookierooks
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let's try a different genre. cute bookmark helps.

SeeJulieRead Love your bookmark! 7y
Cookierooks Thank you! 7y
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Kidsilkhaze
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About halfway through and loving it. I'm a sucker for an epidemiology book anyway, but this is special. It's got the science and mystery and covers several diseases, but it also has policy recommendations and deals with how out infrastructure can help or hurt response. Even better, it's super-engaging, often funny, and under 300 pages.

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