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  • The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research cover art

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    • The Great Mortality

    • An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
    • By: John Kelly
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern....

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    • Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses

    • From the Plague of Athens to COVID-19
    • By: Heather E. Quinlan
    • Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • It can come in waves - like tidal waves. It changes societies. It disrupts life. It ends lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example....

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  • Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness cover art

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    • The Fate of Rome

    • Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....

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    • A Nurse's Story

    • My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis
    • By: Louise Curtis, Sarah Johnson
    • Narrated by: Louise Curtis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings

    • Working in A&E is a challenging job, but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions about the patients she saw, when the unthinkable happened and the country was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic....

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    • Viruses, Plagues, and History

    • Past, Present, and Future
    • By: Michael B. A. Oldstone
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings

    • The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity....

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    • We Are in This Together

    • Finding Hope and Opportunity in the Depths of Adversity
    • By: Beth Kempton
    • Narrated by: Beth Kempton
    • Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

    • This global pandemic has disrupted life as we know it, in ways we could never have imagined. Even with the gradual easing of restrictions, many material challenges remain. The time has come to consider what happens next....

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    • The Price of Panic

    • How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe
    • By: Douglas Axe, Jay W. Richards, William M. Briggs
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings

    • For the first time in history, the world shut itself down - by choice - all for fear of a virus, COVID-19, that wasn’t well understood. The government, with the support of most Americans, ordered the closure of tens of thousands of small businesses - many never to return....

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    • Patient Zero

    • A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
    • By: Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us....

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    • Duty of Care

    • One Doctor’s Story of the COVID-19 Crisis
    • By: Dr Dominic Pimenta
    • Narrated by: Dr Dominic Pimenta
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings

    • The first book to tell the full story of the COVID-19 pandemic, from an NHS doctor working inside hospitals to save lives and combat the virus on the front line....

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    • Carville's Cure

    • Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice
    • By: Pam Fessler
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Following the trail of an unexpected family connection, acclaimed journalist Pam Fessler has unearthed the lost world of the patients, nurses, doctors, and researchers at Carville who struggled for over a century to eradicate Hansen's disease, the modern name for leprosy....

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    • The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl

    • How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
    • By: Arthur Allen
    • Narrated by: Dennis Holland
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From a laboratory in wartime Poland comes a fascinating story of anti-Nazi resistance and scientific ingenuity....

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    • Pox Romana

    • The Plague That Shook the Roman World
    • By: Colin Elliott
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Series: Turning Points in Ancient History
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • This audiobook gives a dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle....

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    • Pandemia

    • How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
    • By: Alex Berenson
    • Narrated by: Alex Berenson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 24-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings

    • The most important fact about the coronavirus pandemic that turned the world upside down in 2020 is that our response to it has been an epic overreaction driven by a disastrous confluence of public and private interests - all of them purporting to “follow the science”....

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    • Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

    • By: Andrey S. Shaw, Arup K. Chakraborty
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • This book provides an accessible explanation of how viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work - concepts that are a foundation for our public health policies....

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    • Unlocking Lyme

    • Myths, Truths, and Practical Solutions for Chronic Lyme Disease
    • By: William Rawls MD
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Written by Dr. Bill Rawls, a physician who overcame Lyme disease himself, this book is a comprehensive, practical resource full of solutions that work....

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    • Deadly Outbreaks

    • How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
    • By: Alexandra Levitt
    • Narrated by: Julie McKay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Take a visit to the frontline as scientists fight to solve medical mysteries....

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    • Phantom Plague

    • How Tuberculosis Shaped History
    • By: Vidya Krishnan
    • Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world....

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