Patient Zero

Is it true that Christopher Columbus brought a new strain of syphilis to Europe? What do the child of the Lewis couple and the eleventh president of the United States have in common? Are tuberculosis and vampires connected?
The book by... Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen is a fascinating illustrated history of infectious disease epidemics: how they arise, how they spread, what allows us to diagnose them, and how we rush to destroy them before they destroy us. Plague, smallpox, leprosy, typhus, rabies, measles, anthrax, hepatitis, Ebola fever, HIV, coronavirus - how successfully does humanity cope with these diseases, and are there chances to defeat them once and for all?