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 related?
The book by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen is an engaging illustrated history of infectious disease epidemics: how they arise, how they spread, what allows us to diagnose them, and how we rush to eliminate 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 do we have a chance to defeat them once and for all?