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"From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the authors' lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV-that combine "Patient Zero" narratives, or the human stories behind outbreaks, with historical 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 the Lewis Baby on London's Broad Street, the first to catch cholera in an 1854 outbreak that led to a major medical breakthrough. Interspersed are origin stories of a different sort-how a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small village in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more"--

 

Table of Contents

Introduction v

Infection

1 (128)

Patient Zero: Ergotism

2 (10)

Zoonoses: Making the Leap

12 (13)

Patient Zero: Ebola

25 (13)

Germ Theory: From Miasma to Microscopes

38 (12)

Patient Zero: The Plague

50 (13)

Autopsy: From Humoral Theory to Grave Robbing

63 (13)

Patient Zero: Mad Cow Disease

76 (11)

Anatomy of an Outbreak: Calling in the Public Health Cavalry

87 (13)

Patient Zero: Yellow Fever

100 (11)

COVID-19: The Origins of SARS-CoV-2 and the Polltlclzatlon of Plagues

111 (18)

Spread

129 (94)

Patient Zero: HIV

130 (16)

Indigenous Peoples & the Columbian Exchange: The "Exchange" Was Not Equal

146 (9)

Patient Zero: Typhus

155 (12)

Patient Zero: Measles

167 (11)

Patient Zero: Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)

178 (11)

Patient Zero: Syphilis

189 (12)

Quackery: From Mercury and Bloodletting to Hydroxychloroquine

201 (11)

Patient Zero: Typhoid Fever

212 (11)

Containment

223 (135)

Patient Zero: 1918 Influenza

224 (15)

Vaccines: From Variolation to Messenger RNA

239 (12)

Patient Zero: Polio

251 (12)

Patient Zero: Hepatitis C

263 (9)

The Infection-Disease Link: From Viruses. Bacteria, and Parasites to Cancer

272 (10)

Patient Zero: Cholera

282 (12)

Anthrax & Biological Warfare: The Weaponization of Disease

294 (13)

Patient Zero: Rabies

307 (10)

Tuberculosis: The "All-Consuming" Disease

317 (12)

Patient Anti-ZERO: The Last Smallpox Case

329 (11)

Medical Advances: From Pandemics to Progress

340 (18)

Sources 358 (19)

Acknowledgments 377 (1)

Index 378 (10)

Photo Credits 388 (2)

About the Authors 390