We’d love to hear from you too! Provide your comments and recommendations of books and other resources below. This post includes a booklist of recently published fiction and non-fiction books as well as links to previously published WOW Currents posts with this focus. This revised edition combines a brand-new design with updated information and features diseases such as Spanish Influenza, Ebola, and AIDS, as well as a new chapter on Covid-19. The Great Plague, 1665 The Soho Outbreak,1854 Yellow Fever in Cuba, 1900 Typhoid in New York City, 1906 Spanish Influenza, 1918-1919 Ebola in Zaire, 1976 AIDS in the U.S., 1980. The Executive Board of Worlds of Words came together to determine how we might assist in the effort to find quality literature for young people around epidemics and pandemics. Patient Zero tracks the gripping tales of eight epidemics and pandemicshow they started, how they spread, and the fight to stop them. Patient Zero brilliantly brings to life the main characters and events to tell the gripping tale of how each of seven diseases spread. In her new book, Patient Zero: Solving the Mysteries of Deadly Epidemics (Annick), Merilee Peters provides a mesmerizing account of how and exactly where.

Schools nation-wide are closed, but they will soon open either on line or face-to-face and teachers will be keen to help young people make sense of current events. Patient Zero reminds us that millions of people owe their lives to the work of these pioneer epidemiologists, work that continues to this day.Many readers are looking for virtual escape as movement is restricted due to the spread of COVID-19. The result is spine-chilling as Peters follows the scientists who solved the intricate mystery of the killer epidemics. Patient Zero tracks the gripping tales of eight epidemics and pandemicshow they started, how they spread, and the fight to stop them. Patient Zero brilliantly brings to life the main characters and events to tell the gripping tale of how each of seven diseases spread. As they looked for clues to the origin of a disease, scientists searched for the unknown “patient zero”-the first person to have contracted it. But they kept hunting for answers, putting the pieces of the epidemic puzzle together. Often they were ignored, laughed at, or even fired from their jobs.

The courageous, trail-blazing defenders against these diseases faced a terrifying personal gamble. Throughout history, more people have died in disease epidemics than in wars or other disasters. Engrossing true stories of the pioneers of epidemiology who risked their lives to find the source of deadly diseases.

Patient zero by marilee peters