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Epidemics

Epidemics – rapidly spreading infectious diseases like the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) – can become global health threats. Learn about the risks, consequences and global impact.

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Coronavirus Pandemic

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Book

The Pandemic Century
A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19
Mark Honigsbaum
WH Allen, 2020
Book

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Bill Gates
Knopf, 2022
8 Book

The Plague Cycle
The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
Charles Kenny
Scribner, 2021
8 Article

First Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released in the United States
Biotech firm Oxitec launches controversial field test of its insects in Florida after years of opposition from residents and regulatory complications.
Emily Waltz
Nature, 2021
9 Article

Stocking the Shelves for the Next Pandemic
Despite previous warnings, drug makers failed to prepare a stockpile of compounds to fight viral pandemics. Can they finally do the right thing?
Elie Dolgin
Nature, 2021
Book

American Contagions
Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
John Fabian Witt
Yale UP, 2020
Book

Epidemics and Society
From the Black Death to the Present
Frank Snowden
Yale UP, 2019
8 Article

The Reemergence of Yellow Fever
Since 2016, yellow fever outbreaks have become a major public health concern
Alan D. T. Barrett
Science, 2018
Book

The Great Influenza
The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
John Barry
Viking, 2004
7 Book

The Rules of Contagion
Why Things Spread – and Why They Stop
Adam Kucharski
Profile Books, 2020
8 Podcast

Pandemics Past and Present with Jeremy Farrar
Going Viral podcast
Mark Honigsbaum et al.
Zinc Media, 2018
9 Article

Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next.
Nine disasters we still aren’t ready for.
Garrett M. Graff
Politico Magazine, 2020