marbear’s Reviews > Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases > Status Update

omg THE typhoid mary??

i appreciate how the book talks about how funding and lack of resources has influenced the spread of diseases across time. it's almost impossible to talk about epidemiology without mentioning economics

had to supplement this wild revelation with some additional reading. did you know the us had a plague outbreak in the early 1900s?? and it was covered up? and we STILL have the plague??