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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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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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A Short History of Disease
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3.94 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,547 ratings
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Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Disease
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4.17 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures
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The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
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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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Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
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Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
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3.98 avg rating — 1,794 ratings
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Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918: A Graphic Novel
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3.68 avg rating — 1,390 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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American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
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3.62 avg rating — 261 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 — 8,125 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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Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu
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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
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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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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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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
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3.83 avg rating — 4,720 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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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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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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Ebola: The Natural and Human History
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Ebola
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World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One
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Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
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4.23 avg rating — 1,561 ratings
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The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
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4.12 avg rating — 2,958 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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Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
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4.17 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Plagued: Pandemics from the Black Death to Covid-19 and Beyond
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3.97 avg rating — 138 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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Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural Violence
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4.40 avg rating — 82 ratings
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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
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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 — 4,342 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 — 1,210 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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AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
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4.21 avg rating — 859 ratings
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The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS
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3.70 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Love is the Cure: On Life, Loss, and the End of AIDS
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3.91 avg rating — 994 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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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
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4.20 avg rating — 2,064 ratings
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Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis
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3.64 avg rating — 116 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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Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
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3.74 avg rating — 5,085 ratings
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Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues
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3.95 avg rating — 547 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.72 avg rating — 11,966 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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Polio: An American Story
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4.05 avg rating — 5,979 ratings
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Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion
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4.31 avg rating — 39 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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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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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 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 — 56,157 ratings
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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
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3.59 avg rating — 552 ratings
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Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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3.96 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
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4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings
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After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America
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4.13 avg rating — 23 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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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,430 ratings
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
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3.82 avg rating — 1,971 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 17,807 ratings
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Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
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4.19 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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Writers on the Spectrum: How Autism and Asperger Syndrome Have Influenced Literary Writing
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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3.94 avg rating — 11,093 ratings
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The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
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3.75 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth Century Tuscany
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The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
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Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas, and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague
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3.71 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
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Plagues and Peoples
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3.87 avg rating — 4,994 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 — 5,447 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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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
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Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
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3.73 avg rating — 226 ratings
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The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
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3.88 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
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Illness as Metaphor
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3.96 avg rating — 3,551 ratings
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The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History
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House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) (Volume 21)
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4.19 avg rating — 427 ratings
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
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4.02 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
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Mesoamerican Experiences of Illness and Healing
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Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
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3.49 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
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3.88 avg rating — 272 ratings
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