These Books Will Kill You

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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus 4.16 avg rating — 119,583 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,065 ratings
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Station Eleven
Station Eleven 4.07 avg rating — 590,280 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic 4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating — 55,256 ratings
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The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 267,307 ratings
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Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 63,443 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 4.05 avg rating — 239,811 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 4.02 avg rating — 556,636 ratings
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The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 240,823 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York 4.01 avg rating — 36,514 ratings
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The Stand
The Stand 4.35 avg rating — 814,336 ratings
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I Am Legend
I Am Legend 4.05 avg rating — 147,529 ratings
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The Plague
The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 300,339 ratings
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The Demon in the Freezer
The Demon in the Freezer 4.15 avg rating — 17,726 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 281,946 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them 4.23 avg rating — 13,612 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance 4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings
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The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death 4.06 avg rating — 44,768 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating — 234,454 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus 3.72 avg rating — 11,393 ratings
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Year of Wonders
Year of Wonders 4.01 avg rating — 171,882 ratings
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Fever 1793
Fever 1793 3.93 avg rating — 131,292 ratings
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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases 4.30 avg rating — 2,129 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,864 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World 3.91 avg rating — 7,931 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 4.34 avg rating — 111,145 ratings
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Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 138,226 ratings
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS 4.44 avg rating — 4,224 ratings
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Lock In (Lock In, #1)
Lock In (Lock In, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 70,460 ratings
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The Decameron
The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 42,707 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease 4.14 avg rating — 8,939 ratings
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine 4.31 avg rating — 21,432 ratings
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It 3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings
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The Cobra Event
The Cobra Event 4.03 avg rating — 16,372 ratings
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Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy #1)
Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy #1) 3.85 avg rating — 60,902 ratings
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Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service 3.94 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures 4.20 avg rating — 5,906 ratings
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Blindness
Blindness 4.18 avg rating — 324,679 ratings
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The Family that Couldn't Sleep
The Family that Couldn't Sleep
by: D.T. Max
3.93 avg rating — 6,377 ratings
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When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air 4.41 avg rating — 767,277 ratings
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug 4.09 avg rating — 5,802 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time 3.89 avg rating — 11,192 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating — 6,648 ratings
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic 4.19 avg rating — 3,530 ratings
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital 4.23 avg rating — 6,798 ratings
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Black Hole
Black Hole 3.85 avg rating — 52,068 ratings
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Eleven Blue Men and Other Narratives of Medical Detection
Eleven Blue Men and Other Narratives of Medical Detection 4.44 avg rating — 176 ratings
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The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)
The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 29,348 ratings
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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries 3.82 avg rating — 1,874 ratings
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story 3.93 avg rating — 61,219 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
Plagues and Peoples 3.87 avg rating — 4,936 ratings
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Mosquito: The Story of Man's Deadliest Foe
Mosquito: The Story of Man's Deadliest Foe 3.89 avg rating — 425 ratings
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The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir 4.38 avg rating — 4,345 ratings
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Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims 4.38 avg rating — 1,328 ratings
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Rats, Lice, and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues
Rats, Lice, and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues 4.02 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Briar's Book (Circle of Magic, #4)
Briar's Book (Circle of Magic, #4) 4.20 avg rating — 31,843 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating — 156,603 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society 3.98 avg rating — 2,436 ratings
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years 3.90 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
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Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites 3.85 avg rating — 878 ratings
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond 4.07 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
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A Journal of the Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year 3.56 avg rating — 11,576 ratings
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The Colony: The Harrowing True Story Of The Exiles Of Molokai
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story Of The Exiles Of Molokai 3.81 avg rating — 2,293 ratings
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The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease 4.05 avg rating — 3,191 ratings
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Outbreak (Dr. Marissa Blumenthal, #1)
Outbreak (Dr. Marissa Blumenthal, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 57,423 ratings
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Polio: An American Story
Polio: An American Story 4.05 avg rating — 5,875 ratings
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster 4.37 avg rating — 61,011 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine 4.01 avg rating — 8,184 ratings
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 3.81 avg rating — 1,806 ratings
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox 4.02 avg rating — 1,536 ratings
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic 4.23 avg rating — 31,637 ratings
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The Years of Rice and Salt
The Years of Rice and Salt 3.76 avg rating — 15,184 ratings
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Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer 4.10 avg rating — 364 ratings
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The Mars Strain
The Mars Strain 3.48 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Tales of Life and Death on the Neurology Ward
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Tales of Life and Death on the Neurology Ward 3.98 avg rating — 5,655 ratings
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The Island
The Island 4.12 avg rating — 58,358 ratings
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Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come 4.42 avg rating — 7,444 ratings
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Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs 4.33 avg rating — 3,403 ratings
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Parasite (Parasitology, #1)
Parasite (Parasitology, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 18,636 ratings
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Kingdom of Needle and Bone
Kingdom of Needle and Bone 3.86 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
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Blackout (Newsflesh Trilogy, #3)
Blackout (Newsflesh Trilogy, #3) 4.08 avg rating — 23,522 ratings
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The Pull of the Stars
The Pull of the Stars 3.95 avg rating — 87,010 ratings
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Deadline (Newsflesh Trilogy #2)
Deadline (Newsflesh Trilogy #2) 4.10 avg rating — 27,214 ratings
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Recursion
Recursion 4.17 avg rating — 290,787 ratings
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus 4.20 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women 4.16 avg rating — 176,384 ratings
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Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History
Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History 3.79 avg rating — 2,783 ratings
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Severance
Severance
by: Ling Ma
3.89 avg rating — 122,940 ratings
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
Death in Venice and Other Tales 3.92 avg rating — 16,075 ratings
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Fever
Fever 3.73 avg rating — 16,064 ratings
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The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil 3.97 avg rating — 50,328 ratings
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One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story
One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story 3.95 avg rating — 5,209 ratings
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The Last Hours (Black Death, #1)
The Last Hours (Black Death, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 8,336 ratings
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Pale Horse, Pale Rider 3.96 avg rating — 4,803 ratings
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Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness 4.07 avg rating — 1,363 ratings
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COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One
COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One 3.93 avg rating — 798 ratings
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Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,519 ratings
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