Going Viral!
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Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
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C.J. Peters
3.98 avg rating — 2,696 ratings 2. 
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings 3. 
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 4. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,866 ratings 5. 
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,584 ratings 6. 
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
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Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,930 ratings 7. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 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
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Richard Preston
4.42 avg rating — 7,442 ratings 11. 
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
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Daniel J. Kevles
3.49 avg rating — 47 ratings 11. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,024 ratings 13. 
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Science Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover-up and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo
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John Crewdson
4.38 avg rating — 39 ratings 15. 
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings 
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Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
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Richard Preston
3.75 avg rating — 5,027 ratings 
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Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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Maryn McKenna
3.94 avg rating — 2,148 ratings 
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Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live 4.01 avg rating — 2,789 ratings
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The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
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Charles Kenny
3.74 avg rating — 934 ratings 27. 
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
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David Quammen
4.18 avg rating — 1,994 ratings 28. 
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,024 ratings 
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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Sonia Shah
4.07 avg rating — 4,009 ratings 33. 
The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
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David Quammen
4.16 avg rating — 1,164 ratings 34. 
Virus: The Co-discoverer of HIV Tracks Its Rampage and Charts the Future
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Luc Montagnier
3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings 34. 
The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It 4.03 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Poetry in a time of Pestilence: Perspectives on a Pandemic
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Alex Morritt
4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 34. 
The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism and the Rest of Us with Coronavirus
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S.V. Date
4.41 avg rating — 372 ratings 
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The Race to Discover the AIDS Virus: Luc Montagnier vs Robert Gallo
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Stuart A. Kallen
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Virus Hunting: AIDS, Cancer, and the Human Retrovirus: A Story of Scientific Discovery
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Robert Gallo
3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings 
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Big Shot: Passion, Politics, and the Struggle for an AIDS Vaccine
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Patricia Thomas
3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings 44. 
The Germ Handbook: Protect your family from infectious diseases really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore's Life in Science
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Shane Crotty
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42 ratings 46. 
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Virus Ground Zero: Stalking the Killer Viruses with the Centers for Disease Control
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Ed Regis
3.78 avg rating — 121 ratings 
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,393 ratings 56. 
The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate
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Seth Mnookin
4.07 avg rating — 5,763 ratings 57. 
Positive: One Doctor's Personal Encounters with Death, Life, and the US Healthcare System
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Michael Saag
4.41 avg rating — 122 ratings 
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Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
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D.A. Henderson
4.10 avg rating — 364 ratings 61. 
A Genetic Switch, Third Edition: Phage Lambda Revisited
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Mark Ptashne
4.40 avg rating — 78 ratings 
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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
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Paul A. Offit
4.30 avg rating — 2,129 ratings 64. 
The Science of Viruses: What They Are, Why They Make Us Sick, How They Will Change the Future liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
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Paul Farmer
4.04 avg rating — 1,199 ratings 
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
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Peter J. Hotez
3.76 avg rating — 212 ratings 70. 
The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
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Mark Honigsbaum
3.88 avg rating — 1,336 ratings 71. 
The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
by:
Ali S. Khan
4.01 avg rating — 1,872 ratings 72. 
Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times
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Arno Karlen
3.89 avg rating — 261 ratings 73. 
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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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Mark Pendergrast
3.70 avg rating — 497 ratings 
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Soldiers of Science: An Interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci
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Alan Alda
4.16 avg rating — 236 ratings 78. 
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
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Matt Richtel
4.07 avg rating — 5,807 ratings 79. 
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
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David France
4.44 avg rating — 4,224 ratings 
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A Shot to Save the World: The Remarkable Race and Ground-Breaking Science Behind the Covid-19 Vaccines 4.18 avg rating — 1,050 ratings
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Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History
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Sarah Gilbert
4.35 avg rating — 2,243 ratings 84. 
The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine
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Brendan Borrell
3.97 avg rating — 276 ratings 85. 
The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Joe Miller
4.24 avg rating — 864 ratings 
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Vaccinia Virus and Poxvirology: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 890)
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Stuart N. Isaacs
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
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David Quammen
4.20 avg rating — 2,001 ratings 90. 
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
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Albert Bourla
3.80 avg rating — 1,059 ratings 
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The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
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Tom Ireland
4.39 avg rating — 540 ratings 
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Tell Me When It's Over: An Insider's Guide to Deciphering Covid Myths and Navigating Our Post-Pandemic World
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Paul A. Offit
4.29 avg rating — 205 ratings