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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.16 — 126,064 ratings — published 1994
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,243 ratings — published 2012
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.31 — 311,400 ratings — published 2025
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,813 ratings — published 1994
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,568 ratings — published 2004
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,886 ratings — published 2002
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,714 ratings — published 2012
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,360 ratings — published 2001
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,189 ratings — published 2004
Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,727 ratings — published 1997
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,428 ratings — published 2005
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.89 — 58,098 ratings — published 2006
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,358 ratings — published 2017
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,865 ratings — published 2006
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,388 ratings — published 2023
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,121 ratings — published 2014
Viruses, Plagues, and History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,332 ratings — published 1998
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,358 ratings — published 2011
Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.90 — 804 ratings — published 2007
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.39 — 30,099 ratings — published 1987
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,112 ratings — published 2015
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,173 ratings — published 2005
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.02 — 336,813 ratings — published 1947
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,963 ratings — published 2016
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,131 ratings — published 2003
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,832 ratings — published 2011
Killer Germs (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,049 ratings — published 2002
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,704 ratings — published 1999
A Planet of Viruses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,326 ratings — published 2011
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,581 ratings — published 1996
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,717 ratings — published 2003
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,164 ratings — published 1976
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,185 ratings — published 2022
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,555 ratings — published 2021
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.43 — 8,641 ratings — published 2019
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,630 ratings — published 2017
No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,027 ratings — published 2012
Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,516 ratings — published 1997
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.11 — 390 ratings — published 2009
Pox: Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.76 — 450 ratings — published 2003
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.01 — 953 ratings — published 1981
Fever! The Hunt for a New Killer Virus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.19 — 179 ratings — published 1974
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,194 ratings — published 2000
Virus X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.95 — 552 ratings — published 1996
Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.71 — 512 ratings — published 2010
Ebola (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,490 ratings — published 1991
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,755 ratings — published 1997
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,572 ratings — published 2003
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,226 ratings — published 2008
Maneater: And Other True Stories of a Life in Infectious Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as infectious-disease)
avg rating 3.81 — 212 ratings — published 2001
“It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,” but here’s an epidemiological question: if you’re talking about outbreaks of infectious disease, isn’t fairly well contained essentially the same thing as not contained at all?”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“Due to the earned sick time policy of the USA, it is likely you are working with COVID-19 infected workers that do not have sufficient earned sick time to stay home and recover from their highly infectious disease!”
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