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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,428 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 802,644 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,149 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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4.23 avg rating — 14,012 ratings
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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4.20 avg rating — 6,032 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.22 avg rating — 10,740 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,540 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,245 ratings
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Agnes at the End of the World
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3.72 avg rating — 3,840 ratings
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Microbe Hunters
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4.14 avg rating — 4,460 ratings
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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3.91 avg rating — 7,656 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 121,286 ratings
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America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
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3.86 avg rating — 622 ratings
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Year of the Nurse: A 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir
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4.08 avg rating — 509 ratings
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American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
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3.62 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19: What Pandemics Teach Us About Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today
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3.85 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction
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3.86 avg rating — 362 ratings
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The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
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4.01 avg rating — 1,896 ratings
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Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction
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3.37 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Watch out for Toxo!: The Secret Guide to Practical Science
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4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare
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4.30 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 8,124 ratings
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Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,804 ratings
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The Masque of the Red Death
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4.06 avg rating — 47,347 ratings
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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3.55 avg rating — 11,826 ratings
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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4.16 avg rating — 3,975 ratings
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
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4.18 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure
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4.28 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Secret Life of Germs: What They Are, Why We Need Them, and How We Can Protect Ourselves Against Them
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3.84 avg rating — 265 ratings
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The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
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4.09 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
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4.31 avg rating — 2,187 ratings
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A Shot in the Arm!
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4.04 avg rating — 488 ratings
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The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine
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3.96 avg rating — 291 ratings
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Viruses: A Very Short Introduction
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3.93 avg rating — 782 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,724 ratings
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
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3.79 avg rating — 2,343 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
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3.87 avg rating — 4,994 ratings
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Pox: Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis
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3.76 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
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3.98 avg rating — 2,709 ratings
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The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease
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3.65 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate
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4.07 avg rating — 5,798 ratings
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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
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4.22 avg rating — 896 ratings
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery
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3.93 avg rating — 6,468 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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3.89 avg rating — 11,611 ratings
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Sentinel for Health: A History of the Centers for Disease Control
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4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages
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3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers
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3.76 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,548 ratings
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The Black Death
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3.64 avg rating — 44 ratings
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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs—and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
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4.29 avg rating — 173 ratings
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The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
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3.87 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures
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4.38 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
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3.79 avg rating — 351 ratings
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The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Disease
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4.38 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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3.90 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
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Mindfully Facing Disease and Death: Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts
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4.49 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Devil's Flu: The World's Deadliest Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused It
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3.60 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Germ Handbook: Protect your family from infectious diseases
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
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4.30 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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The Kissing Bug
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3.98 avg rating — 1,762 ratings
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An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
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4.07 avg rating — 5,963 ratings
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Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
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4.58 avg rating — 13,018 ratings
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The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
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4.03 avg rating — 7,010 ratings
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Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health
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4.24 avg rating — 978 ratings
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A Planet of Viruses
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4.06 avg rating — 5,068 ratings
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Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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3.94 avg rating — 2,165 ratings
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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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3.70 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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4.13 avg rating — 1,351 ratings
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The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health
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3.77 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City
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3.72 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic
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4.04 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
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The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
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3.74 avg rating — 796 ratings
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Modern Epidemics: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19
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3.81 avg rating — 73 ratings
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When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
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3.89 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America
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3.89 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience
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4.56 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
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3.76 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic
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3.80 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic
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3.86 avg rating — 689 ratings
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The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
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3.96 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
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3.81 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,428 ratings
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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4.07 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
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3.79 avg rating — 2,343 ratings
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
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3.88 avg rating — 1,361 ratings
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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3.91 avg rating — 7,656 ratings
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