Infectious Disease


The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Demon in the Freezer
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
The Ghost Map
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettThe Hot Zone by Richard   Preston
History of disease
167 books — 71 voters
Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals by Matt J. KeelingAn Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling by Emilia VynnyckyMathematical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases by O. DiekmannMathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics by Odo DiekmannEpidemics by Ottar N. Bjørnstad
Infectious Disease Modeling
8 books — 1 voter


What if you could start allowing your sensuality to permeate every aspect of whatever you're doing on a daily basis instead of compartmentalizing and isolating it from a majority of your daily affairs like it's some kind of an infectious disease? ...more
Lebo Grand, Sensual Lifestyle

Jill Lepore
[Europeans lived] in dense, settled populations- cities- where human & animal waste breeds vermin, like mice and rats and roaches. Most of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, though, didn't live in dense settlements, and even those who lived in villages tended to move with the seasons, taking apart their towns and rebuilding them somewhere else. They didn't accumulate filth, and they didn't live crowds. They suffered from very few infectious diseases. ...more
Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

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