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9/10

I learned so much from this book. I find our history with diseases so interesting and realize that we will have never ending exposure and threats by contagions. In light of the coronavirus that sprang up in wet markets in China it is good to understand what the threat is and what is effective e in terms of our human reaction to stopping the spread. We are our worst enemy sometimes.

This book was fascinating and at times horrifying. It has a message of both being aware of our behavior with regards to pathogens and how thry spread while also being confident that in some cases modern medicine will save us.

So I finished Chapter 4 of Pandemic and am.about half way chapter 5.

This book is conjuring up so many ideas for me..

In chaps 2 and 3 she talks about locomotion and crowding... Well ya know in 2019 lightrail and buses are croweded and they move.. Maybe we should think of them as a place to do.some public health work.

What a better way to target a vulnerable population then to give them a flu vaccine for free along with a free ride.

Started reading this today. It is fascinating and intriguing. I am learning how pandamics start how they travel and the steps we take to beat them.

Ok, so maybe reading about antibiotic-resistant infections and mutated influenza viruses isn't the best idea while riding on a grimy train that hasn't been cleaned in years with people who are coughing and sneezing all around me. 😳😬😷

A mug of tea, a lot of fleece and a book about deadly pandemic-causing pathogens. This is how I do Friday night. 😎

Maybe it's because I work in marketing at a hospital --or maybe I'm just weird!-- but I love books about diseases and epidemics and contagions and medical history. Thanks to @aprilpohren and #litsyswapoween, I get to dive into this book about how epidemiologists track pandemics! I'm so excited. #geekalert

I always seem to pick the worst books to read while eating 😷

Between books right now and I really really want this to come in on Libby soon! C'mon one person! ⏳⏲

Wow. Really fascinating. Easy to follow for a non-sciencey person like me. Human beings and stupid and disgusting 🤢😷

A really great book talking about pandemics & cholera. It covered the human & scientific reactions to disease. Right up my alley!

This wasn't exactly what I was expecting, but it was a very interesting approach to the topic. Rather than discussing many different epidemics, she mostly focuses on cholera and uses it to discuss the political, social, economic, evolutionary and historical factors that lead to epidemics. Super short, and not burdensomely scientific language.

WOW.

Officially scared. 😷🙄😱 #firstlines #ReadPastFear

Trying to decide if I'm ready for this one at this particular point in time 🤔 #Picador #ReadPastFear

Alarming but not alarmist is how I would describe this. It's a highly readable look at both historical and current epidemics and pandemics, and also explores the current state of public health. Great for those concerned about the next pandemic, and I would also recommend for fans of fictions like 'Station Eleven'.

Barely into the first chapter and hooked!

This makes me want to take a shower. It was more of a history of cholera. It wasn't until the last chapter that the author discussed the future of pandemics.

Starting the weekend with this light read...LOL

It had its slow parts and it took me way longer to read than I anticipated, but this book is packed with fascinating (also terrifying) information.

So apparently I'm more likely to survive leprosy... #silverlining

Excuse me, what???

This book was so interesting! She draws parallels between historical pandemics and recent ones, talks about ways our biology may be altered by pandemics, and brings up things I never thought would have been related to disease.

I will never stop talking about the things I learned in this book. Case in point: I was walking my dog, full poop bag in hand as I searched for a trash can, just as Shah (narrating her own audiobook) drew an uncomfortably close comparison between modern dog owners & Victorian beliefs about hygiene.

Apparently people used to think you got cholera from eating too many vegetables.

So technically it's Saturday, but I'm posting this for @Liberty 's Fun Friday. Only about 70% sure that the boom Denbigh decided to sit on is Pandemic. This was a while ago.

So London got a new sewer system because Goldsworthy Gurney opened the windows in parliament and the lords couldn't deal with the Thames stink. New York got new sewers because Brewers wanted better-tasting water for their beer. Continuing in the tradition of not-at-all surprising trivia.

Well that's the least surprising tidbit of bank trivia I've ever encountered (not that I've run across a whole lot...)

They are gathering more and more deadly abilities and awaiting for a prime opportunity to attack...they are microbes and they fear nothing. Shah makes difficult material engaging and accessible. Everyone should read this!

I appreciated the way this book was structured, but it just wasn't super interesting.

Noo. Why?

Eating oranges while reading about pandemics will cancel out the paranoia, right?

Prominent Christians openly repudiated water's cleansing effect as superficial, vain, and decadent. "A clean body and a clean dress," opined one, "means an unclean soul."

Bedtime reading. Because apparently I want to give myself nightmares of dying in a horrific plague...

Three of the selections from my readathon stack.

I actually learned a lot that I didn't know about pathogens, and much of the book was really interesting, but it was repetitive.

Good ideas, and I like the idea of the chapter organization themed around how infectious diseases take advantage of human behavior but confusing and needs a tad more science/definitions in the actual text. But hey - a new book about epidemiology!

THIS. Because no one really gave a damn about poor black people in Africa until irrational white people in the US suddenly realized infectious diseases could hitch rides on airplanes. (See also: the AIDS epidemic and gay men/IVDU)

The vaccines aren't very effective. It would be better to spend money on waste management and access to clean water (which would also catch other water-borne disease)

Because the major UN donor nations have basically stopped funding. Private funding always comes with strings.

Holla, Thomas Mann, for not being censored by the Italian government.

So, not only did Burr off Hamilton, he blocked a public water works in NYC because he wanted to charter a bank. 😒

This is why Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven is scary as hell.

HIV is probably not the best comparison to Ebola since the infectious routes and disease progressions are so different.

Ahem, editor/copywriter - the UI and Netherlands studies need better attribution or citation. I know who they actually are, but this is part of my field of study. #pedant #hereformyfellowladyscientists

A spade is a spade is a spade. #hereforit