Patient Zero \;by Lydia Kang an d Nate Pederson
\n\nPatient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start\, how they spr ead\, the science that lets us understand them\, and how we race to destro y them before they destroy us. Written in the authors' lively and accessib le style\, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particula r disease or virus-smallpox\, Bubonic plague\, polio\, HIV-that combine "P atient Zero" narratives\, or the human stories behind outbreaks\, with his torical examinations of missteps\, milestones\, scientific theories\, and more. Learn the tragic stories of Patient Zeros throughout history\, such as Mabalo Lokela\, who contracted Ebola while on vacation in 1976\, and th e Lewis Baby on London's Broad Street\, the first to catch cholera in an 1 854 outbreak that led to a major medical breakthrough. Interspersed are or igin stories of a different sort-how a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small v illage in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. P lus the uneasy history of human autopsy\, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century\, and more.
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