Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond Audiobook (Free)

From the writer from the Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry in to the origins of pandemics

Interweaving history, primary reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the foundation of epidemics, drawing parallels between your story of cholera–one of history’s most disruptive and deadly pathogens–and the brand new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs.

More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new about Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond territory during the past fifty years, and 90 percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime within the next two years.

To reveal how that may happen, Sonia Shah songs each stage of cholera’s dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, from its 1817 introduction in the South Asian hinterlands to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century globe and its most recent beachhead in Haiti. She reviews on the pathogens following in cholera’s footsteps, from your MRSA bacterium that besieges her personal family to the never-before-seen killers growing from China’s damp markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, the slums of Port-au-Prince, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast.

By delving in to the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world’s deadliest diseases, Pandemic reveals what another epidemic might appearance like–and what we can do to prevent it.