Virology


The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
A Planet of Viruses
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
The Demon in the Freezer
Viruses, Plagues, and History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
Virus Mania: How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics, Making Billion Dollar Profits at Our Expense
Viral: The Search For the Origin Of COVID-19
Zika: The Emerging Epidemic
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Virus Hunter by C.J. PetersThe Living Medicine by Lina ZeldovichThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Hot Zone by Richard   Preston
Going Viral!
99 books — 14 voters

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse AndersonWhat Is the Coronavirus Disease COVID-19? by Michael BurganLife on the Line by Emma GoldbergThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAlone Together by Garth Stein
Staff Picks: Pandemic Reads
100 books — 6 voters
I Contain Multitudes by Ed YongThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonMarch of the Microbes by IngrahamThe Living Medicine by Lina Zeldovich
Microbiology
98 books — 25 voters

If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.
Robin Weiss, HIV and the New Viruses

Science appears calm and triumphant when it is completed; but science in the process of being done is only contradiction and torment, hope and disappointment." - Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French bacteriologist and developer of the first effective treatment for diphtheria ...more
Meredith Wadman, The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease

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