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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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8 Book

The Plague Cycle

The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
Charles Kenny
Scribner, 2021
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The Rules of Contagion

Why Things Spread – and Why They Stop
Adam Kucharski
Profile Books, 2020
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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
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
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Bill Gates
Knopf, 2022
8 Book

Epidemic

Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
Reid Wilson
Brookings Institution Press, 2018
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Garrett M. Graff
Politico Magazine, 2020
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
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Eradication

Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?
Nancy Leys Stepan
Reaktion, 2019
8 Podcast
Mark Honigsbaum et al.
Zinc Media, 2018
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Plagues and the Paradox of Progress

Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways
Thomas J. Bollyky
MIT Press, 2018
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American Contagions

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