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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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 58,002 ratings — published 2006
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,900 ratings — published 1994
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,517 ratings — published 2004
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,229 ratings — published 2012
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,811 ratings — published 1994
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,854 ratings — published 2002
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,111 ratings — published 2015
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.39 — 30,062 ratings — published 1987
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.31 — 308,079 ratings — published 2025
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,670 ratings — published 2012
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,705 ratings — published 1999
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,855 ratings — published 2006
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,616 ratings — published 2017
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,189 ratings — published 2004
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,350 ratings — published 2017
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,161 ratings — published 1976
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.34 — 119,018 ratings — published 2010
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,314 ratings — published 2023
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,513 ratings — published 2017
Epidemiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.85 — 519 ratings — published 2000
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,136 ratings — published 2008
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.43 — 8,615 ratings — published 2019
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,880 ratings — published 2001
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Open Yale Courses)
by (shelved 14 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,133 ratings — published 2019
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,359 ratings — published 2011
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,220 ratings — published 2008
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,579 ratings — published 1996
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,163 ratings — published 2005
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,642 ratings — published 2003
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.44 — 4,537 ratings — published 2016
Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.83 — 947 ratings — published 2013
Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.37 — 355 ratings — published 2010
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,560 ratings — published 2010
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.32 — 43,928 ratings — published 2021
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,119 ratings — published 2014
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,927 ratings — published 2010
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,401 ratings — published 2005
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ― A New York Times Bestselling Science Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,907 ratings — published 2016
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.04 — 474,999 ratings — published 1997
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.14 — 832,054 ratings — published 2010
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,947 ratings — published 1999
A Planet of Viruses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,317 ratings — published 2011
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,191 ratings — published 2000
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,131 ratings — published 2003
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,354 ratings — published 2001
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,179 ratings — published 2022
Viruses, Plagues, and History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,330 ratings — published 1998
Epidemiology: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.95 — 153 ratings — published 2002
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,829 ratings — published 2011
Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,516 ratings — published 1997
“MARV serves as a poignant example of the way a pathogen that is highly prevalent in its reservoir host population can hide safely without human notice, until in some unfortunate accident, hosts and vectors cross paths.”
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
“Epidemiologists-scientists who study the spread of disease-use a special number to describe how contagious a virus is. It's called the basic reproduction number, or R0 for short. It's complicated to calculate but simple to understand-it counts how many people one sick person is expected to infect over the course of his or her illness. If I'm sick with a cold and I make two other people sick, the R0 of my virus is 2. Colds and seasonal flus typically have R0 values of around 1.5 to 2. The 1918 flu pandemic R0 was estimated to be 2 to 3, while diseases like polio and small pox have R0 values of around 5 to 7.”
― It's Catching: The Infectious World of Germs and Microbes
― It's Catching: The Infectious World of Germs and Microbes
