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  • Viruses, Plagues, and History cover art

    • 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 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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    • 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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  • Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses cover art

    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • Duty of Care

    • One Doctor’s Story of the COVID-19 Crisis
    • By: Dr Dominic Pimenta
    • Narrated by: Dr Dominic Pimenta
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings

    • The first book to tell the full story of the COVID-19 pandemic, from an NHS doctor working inside hospitals to save lives and combat the virus on the front line....

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    • Infectious Madness

    • The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness
    • By: Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A groundbreaking look at the connection between germs and mental illness and how we can protect ourselves....

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    • Healing Lyme

    • Natural Healing of Lyme Borreliosis and the Coinfections Chlamydia and Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, 2nd Edition
    • By: Stephen Harrod Buhner
    • Narrated by: Melanie Avalon
    • Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Lyme disease infects a minimum of 300,000 people per year in the United States and millions more throughout the rest of the world. Symptoms run from mild lethargy to severe arthritis to heart disease to incapacitating mental dysfunction....

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    • Epidemic

    • Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
    • By: Reid Wilson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • From the poorest villages of rural West Africa to the Oval Office itself, this book tells the story of a deadly virus that spun wildly out of control - and reveals the truth about how close the world came to a catastrophic global pandemic....

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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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    • Under the Big Tree

    • Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • By: Ellen Agler, Mojie Crigler - with, Bill Gates - foreword
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over one billion of the world's poorest people. More than 170,000 people die from NTDs each year, and many more suffer from blindness, disability, disfigurement, cognitive impairment, and stunted growth....

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    • An End to Upside Down Medicine

    • Contagion, Viruses, and Vaccines—and Why Consciousness Is Needed for a New Paradigm of Health
    • By: Mark Gober
    • Narrated by: Mark Gober
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Mark Gober dives into fundamental beliefs about health and disease, and goes a layer deeper by examining the nature of consciousness....

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    • Leading Through a Pandemic

    • The Inside Story of Humanity, Innovation, and Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Crisis
    • By: Michael J. Dowling, Charles Kenney
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-20
    • Language: English
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    • What was it like at the epicenter, inside the health system that cared for more COVID-19 patients than any other in the United States? Leading Through a Pandemic takes listeners inside Northwell Health, New York's largest health system....

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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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    • 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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    • Pox Romana

    • The Plague That Shook the Roman World
    • By: Colin Elliott
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Series: Turning Points in Ancient History
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • This audiobook gives a dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle....

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