Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more. New York, Workman Publishing, c2021 Bibliography note Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-376) and index Carrier category volume Carrier category. Patient zero : a curious history of the world's worst diseases Publication. 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. Despite our lunchtime scheduling of this conversation, you may want to watch on an empty stomach Authors Dr. Patient zero : a curious history of the world's worst diseases, by Lydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen Instantiates. 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. From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreakshow they.
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