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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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9 Book

Eradication
Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?
Nancy Leys Stepan
Reaktion, 2019
8 Book

Plagues and the Paradox of Progress
Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways
Thomas J. Bollyky
MIT Press, 2018
8 Book

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

The Next Pandemic
On the Front Lines Against Humankind’s Gravest Dangers
Ali S. Khan
Public Affairs, 2016
7 Book

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

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

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

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