Hello! I’m wanting a non-fiction book about viruses (germs and microbes in general). Suggestions?
Hello! I’m wanting a non-fiction book about viruses (germs and microbes in general). Suggestions?
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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
The Coming Plague and The Next Pandemic.
The Vaccine Race (author unknown, sorry)
*by Meredith Wadman
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts about the discovery of the AIDS virus.
I’ve just begun reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and it’s a fascinating story about medical advancement and medical ethics
Where the Germs Are by Nicholas Bakalar and Do You Believe in Magic? by Paul Offitt
The Hot Zone.
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
The Great Influenza Epidemic.
I echo all of the previous suggestions and add Spillover by David Quammen . It covers several diseases, a different chapter for each (not all virus)