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As somebody studying vector-borne diseases, I am very much looking forward to reading this book. Chagas disease is a menace in the Americas.

I did not expect this biography to turn into a murder mystery investigation. This is nuts!

Damn, David Starr Jordan was the first president of Stanford?? I didn't see that coming, that's nuts.

Again, I love the chapter I just read talking about the people in one's life that encouraged their scientific interest. It makes me really want to reflect on my own experience and who's helped me onto the path I now flourish in.

This book is incredible so far. I am loving this historical recounting of just the name and societal perception of Tuberculosis disease. The fact that it was once ROMANTICIZED by Europeans and Americans is insane! And once Koch identified the bacterium, which helped us better understand its mode of transmission and how to better control it, it then became a disease that mostly inflicted poorer populations. Crazy.

This book is incredible so far. John Green has such a way of telling the history/story of a scientific concept while interjecting his own narrative & experiences alongside it.