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  • The Great Mortality cover art

    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • 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 61 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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    • 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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    • 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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  • Plagues upon the Earth cover art

    • Plagues upon the Earth

    • Disease and the Course of Human History
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

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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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    • 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 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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    • 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 14 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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    • Jonas Salk

    • A Life
    • By: Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The authoritative account of one of the 20th century's most important - and controversial - scientists....

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  • An Expert's Guide on Navigating Lyme Disease cover art

    • An Expert's Guide on Navigating Lyme Disease

    • By: Daniel Cameron
    • Narrated by: Erica Brookhyser
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-23
    • Language: English
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    • Hundreds of researchers and clinicians have been making breakthroughs in understanding Lyme disease. I am sharing my understanding of these breakthroughs as a clinical epidemiologist and physician with more than 36 years of experience....

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    • No Time to Lose

    • A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
    • By: Peter Piot
    • Narrated by: Gary Telles
    • Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, "There’s no future in infectious diseases. They’ve all been solved." Fortunately, Piot ignored him, and the result has been an exceptional, adventure-filled career....

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    • Vaxxers

    • A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History
    • By: Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
    • Narrated by: Heather Long, Nicky Diss
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 417 ratings

    • In Vaxxers, we hear directly from Professor Gilbert and her colleague, Dr Catherine Green, as they reveal the inside story of making the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and the cutting-edge science and sheer hard work behind it....

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    • Virus Hunt

    • The Search for the Origin of HIV
    • By: Dorothy H. Crawford
    • Narrated by: Alice Gilmour
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over 20 years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans....

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    • Spike

    • The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
    • By: Jeremy Farrar, Anjana Ahuja
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 30-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

    • The coronavirus pandemic has devastated lives and livelihoods around the world - and continues to do so. These personal tragedies will, and must, be told and heard....

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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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    • Understanding Human Metabolism

    • By: Keith N. Frayn
    • Narrated by: Michael Langan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    • In this game-changing book, Keith Frayn, an international expert in human metabolism and nutrition, dispels common misconceptions about human metabolism, explaining in everyday language the important metabolic processes that underlie all aspects of our daily lives.

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    • Lest We Forget

    • A Doctor’s Experience with Life and Death During the Ebola Outbreak
    • By: Kwan Kew Lai
    • Narrated by: Raechel Wong
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-21
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    • In 2014, after fighting through yards of bureaucratic red tape, leaving her family, and putting her own health at risk in order to help suffering strangers, Kwan Kew Lai finally arrived in Africa to volunteer as an infectious disease specialist in the heart of the largest Ebola outbreak....

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