Microbes - Viruses, Bacteria & Diseases
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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
by:
Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings 4. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 5. 
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
by:
Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings 
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings 
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,014 ratings 9. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,334 ratings 11. 
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
by:
Meredith Wadman
3.96 avg rating — 1,031 ratings 12. 
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) (Volume 21)
by:
William H. Foege
4.18 avg rating — 420 ratings 13. 
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
by:
Sonia Shah
4.07 avg rating — 4,009 ratings 14. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings 15. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,256 ratings 15. 
Viruses: What Doesn't Kill Them Makes Us Weaker (The Layman's Guide to Medical School Book 1)
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Colleen Fleshman
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare 4.30 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It 4.03 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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Carl Zimmer
4.20 avg rating — 5,906 ratings 15. 
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
by:
Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,929 ratings 
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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
by:
Rob Dunn
4.20 avg rating — 2,401 ratings 
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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
by:
Jim Murphy
3.93 avg rating — 802 ratings 
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
by:
Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,393 ratings 31. 
The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life
by:
Rodney Dietert
3.96 avg rating — 693 ratings 
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
by:
Sonia Shah
3.90 avg rating — 1,490 ratings 35. 
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
by:
Richard Preston
3.75 avg rating — 5,026 ratings 37. 
Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions--A New Biological Principle of Disease 4.12 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
by:
Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,393 ratings 41. 
Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
by:
C.J. Peters
3.98 avg rating — 2,696 ratings 42. 
The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate
by:
Seth Mnookin
4.07 avg rating — 5,763 ratings 
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
by:
Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings 45. 
Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
by:
Marion Nestle
3.89 avg rating — 272 ratings 46. 
Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
by:
Mark Pendergrast
3.70 avg rating — 497 ratings 
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The Health of Nations: The Campaign to End Polio and Eradicate Epidemic Diseases
by:
Karen Bartlett
3.88 avg rating — 52 ratings 
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Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry
by:
Peter McCandless
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 54. 
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
by:
Jimmy Carter
3.78 avg rating — 343 ratings 
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Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory 3.76 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
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The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie: A Book About Germs
by:
Joanna Cole
4.42 avg rating — 6,003 ratings 58. 
The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
by:
James Tobin
4.26 avg rating — 492 ratings 
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
by:
Jim Murphy
3.83 avg rating — 4,661 ratings 61. 
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 Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
by:
Stephen Coss
3.73 avg rating — 782 ratings 
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The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
by:
David Quammen
4.16 avg rating — 1,164 ratings 68. 
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
by:
David France
4.44 avg rating — 4,224 ratings 69. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,864 ratings