Pandemic

By Sonia Shah

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About the book

In Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, From Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond, prizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity-and how history prepares us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.

Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Shah draws parallels between cholera, one of history’s most deadly pandemic-causing pathogens, and the new diseases that stalk humankind today.

To reveal how a new pandemic might develop, Shah tracks each stage of cholera’s dramatic journey. Along the way she reports on the pathogens now following in its footsteps, from the MRSA bacterium that besieges her own family to the never-before-seen killers coming out of China’s wet markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast.

Delving into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world’s deadliest diseases, Pandemic is a work of epidemiological history like no other, with urgent lessons for today.

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Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Sonia Shah

Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the prizewinning author of The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move. Her writing on science, politics, and human rights has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and Scientific American, among other publications. Her book The Fever was long listed for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize for Science Books, and Pandemic was named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.

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A superbly written account of how we got here and what might await us. - The Economist

Could hardly be more timely… Ms. Shah steers us nimbly along the pandemic path… Ms. Shah has chosen a complex structure for this book…but the strategy pays off; she has succeeded in producing a lively, rigorously researched and highly informative read. - The Wall Street Journal

[An] absorbing, complex, and ominous look at the dangers posed by pathogens… Shah’s warning is certainly troubling, and this important medical and social history is worthy of attention—and action. - Publishers Weekly

The most provocative — and sci-fi — part of Ms. Shah’s book is not about the ways humans have altered the evolution of pandemics. It’s about the ways pandemics have altered the evolution of humans. - The New York Times