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I read books about diseases frequently but still learned things from this book geared towards kids.

I felt a lot of sympathy for Mary when this story was told from a cook's perspective. If your job doesn't offer sick leave benefits, you tend to work no matter how sick, consequences to others be damned because they obviously don't care about you. There is a lesson there.

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I can‘t be the only weirdo who gets excited when I see a sale on a book about a disease or medical condition. Right? Bueller? Bueller?

#DiseaseoftheMonthBookClub

Rabies

Primarily a history of rabies and its impact on the human population and our beloved dogs, this book also dabbles into very accessible science and some individual stories of infection. It‘s fascinating, though Bindi says some of the dog illness parts were upsetting.

Paul Farmer provides an excellent assessment of the 2014 Ebola outbreak. It was especially hilarious given that it was released during the Covid epidemic.