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Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how? Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territories where theyve never been seen before. Ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. It could be Ebola, avian flu, a drug-resistant superbug, or something completely new. While we cant know which pathogen will cause the next pandemic, by unraveling the story of how pathogens have caused pandemics in the past, we can make predictions about the future. In Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond , the prizewinning journalist Sonia Shahwhose book on malaria, The Fever , was called a tour-de-force history ( The New York Times ) and revelatory ( The New Republic )interweaves history, original reportage, and personal narrative to explore the origins of contagions, drawing parallels between cholera, one of historys most deadly and disruptive pandemic-causing pathogens, and the new diseases that stalk humankind today. To reveal how a new pa

Who reads Pandemic - Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond?

Author

Sonia Shah

Publisher

Sarah Crichton Books; Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374122881

Category

science

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Fiction

Rating

3.92 / 5 (886 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14