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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 — 56,324 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,631 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,305 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 — 10,745 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 457,972 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 — 121,593 ratings
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Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health
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4.42 avg rating — 20,503 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 — 14,060 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 — 11,673 ratings
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The Demon in the Freezer
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4.15 avg rating — 18,131 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.72 avg rating — 12,054 ratings
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Ebola: The Natural and Human History
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4.19 avg rating — 2,041 ratings
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Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine
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4.18 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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4.41 avg rating — 193 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 — 503 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 — 6,736 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 — 8,151 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 — 7,664 ratings
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
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3.40 avg rating — 5,460 ratings
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Outbreak!: 50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World
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4.11 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
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3.71 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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4.07 avg rating — 4,055 ratings
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Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
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4.42 avg rating — 7,843 ratings
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Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory
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3.77 avg rating — 2,156 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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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
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3.83 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 114,449 ratings
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No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
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3.84 avg rating — 994 ratings
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Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 493 ratings
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Pox: An American History
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3.69 avg rating — 874 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 — 6,049 ratings
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
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4.03 avg rating — 1,286 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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Still Positive
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4.29 avg rating — 89 ratings
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
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3.83 avg rating — 4,724 ratings
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Ebola
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3.97 avg rating — 1,470 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 — 7,664 ratings
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
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4.44 avg rating — 4,356 ratings
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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4.09 avg rating — 237,866 ratings
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The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
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4.17 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
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Virus Hunt: The Search for the Origin of HIV
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3.88 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
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3.74 avg rating — 5,097 ratings
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Polio: An American Story
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4.05 avg rating — 5,992 ratings
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Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
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3.98 avg rating — 2,710 ratings
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
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4.06 avg rating — 1,922 ratings
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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3.94 avg rating — 11,261 ratings
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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
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4.23 avg rating — 3,540 ratings
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
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4.02 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
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4.10 avg rating — 5,881 ratings
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The Incurable Wound
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4.09 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases
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4.54 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America – A YA Historical Biography of Public Health and Human Rights
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3.70 avg rating — 3,891 ratings
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Stora döden: Den värsta katastrof som drabbat Europa
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3.64 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Epidemic of Our Time
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Vaccine Science Revisited: Are Childhood Immunizations As Safe As Claimed? (The Underground Knowledge Series, #8)
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3.96 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Spanish Influenza: The Story of the Epidemic That Swept America From the Newspaper Reports of 1918
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3.44 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
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3.92 avg rating — 813 ratings
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Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Illness
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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History of Medicine for the First and Second Year Medical Student
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives
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3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,503 ratings
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The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction―and a Search for Relief
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3.64 avg rating — 284 ratings
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The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
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4.03 avg rating — 340 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 — 8,151 ratings
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Hell Ship
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4.13 avg rating — 709 ratings
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When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS
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3.63 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Modern Epidemics: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19
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3.79 avg rating — 75 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 — 8,151 ratings
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Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
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4.20 avg rating — 2,266 ratings
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A Short History of Disease
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3.94 avg rating — 237 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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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
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3.81 avg rating — 1,839 ratings
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The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won - And Lost
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4.13 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are
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3.57 avg rating — 2,832 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 New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All
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3.83 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
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3.96 avg rating — 1,056 ratings
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Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Disease
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4.17 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
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4.10 avg rating — 3,102 ratings
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Virus X
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3.95 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
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3.83 avg rating — 1,891 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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Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures
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4.38 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
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4.09 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness
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3.73 avg rating — 606 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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3.96 avg rating — 121,904 ratings
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The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
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3.74 avg rating — 956 ratings
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A Planet of Viruses
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4.06 avg rating — 5,086 ratings
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The Pox and the Covenant: Mather, Franklin, and the Epidemic That Changed America's Destiny
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3.30 avg rating — 140 ratings
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A Planet of Viruses
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4.06 avg rating — 5,086 ratings
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Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 778 ratings
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Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature
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it was amazing 5.00 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 — 1,094 ratings
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Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
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3.98 avg rating — 1,801 ratings
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Plague: A Very Short Introduction
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3.59 avg rating — 234 ratings
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How to Survive a Pandemic
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4.24 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918: A Graphic Novel
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3.68 avg rating — 1,394 ratings
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Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
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3.78 avg rating — 2,197 ratings
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Modern Epidemics: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19
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3.79 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today (Ft Press Science Series)
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3.73 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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