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)

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