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Die weltweit renommierte Virologin Isabella Eckerle über die Sprengkraft von Virus-Infektionen - ein hochaktuelles Wissenschafts-Sachbuch über Zoonosen, Pandemien und die globale Gesundheit. AIDS, Ebolafieber, Rinderwahn, Vogelgrippe, Affenpocken, SARS-CoV-2 – allesamt gefährliche Virus-Erkrankungen. Und jedes Mal wurde das Virus von wildlebenden Tieren wie Fledermäusen auf Menschen übertragen, um dort sein zerstörerisches Werk zu beginnen.

In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be permanent. Then, apparently out of nowhere, a sudden sickness struck the legions and laid waste to cities, including Rome itself. This fast-spreading disease, known now as the Antonine plague, may have been history’s first pandemic. Soon after its arrival, the Empire began its downward trajectory toward decline and fall.

For two years the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. The physician and medical historian Jacalyn Duffin presents a global history of the virus, with a focus on Canada. Duffin describes the frightening appearance of the virus and its identification by scientists in China; subsequent outbreaks on cruise ships; the relentless spread to Europe, the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere; and the immediate attempts to confront it. COVID-19 next explores the scientific history of infections generally, and the discovery of coronaviruses in particular.

Mark Gober dives into fundamental beliefs about health and disease. These beliefs are so fundamental, in fact, that most of us probably haven’t thought to question them. For example, do bacteria cause disease, or are they part of the body’s cleanup crew that appears at the scene of an underlying toxicity or injury? Do researchers follow the scientific method when they claim to isolate viruses and show that they cause disease in their hosts? In addition to exploring these essential questions, Gober goes a layer deeper by examining the nature of consciousness.

Commonsense Medicine is a must-listen for everyone seeking to improve their health, understand why we get sick, and survive the next pandemic. Included are the secrets of how he invented Xlear and the personal reasons that drove him to find solutions for his family. This is the new paradigm in medicine.

Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air—and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains so mysterious that it took over two years for scientists to finally agree that the COVID pandemic was caused by an airborne virus. In Air-Borne, award-winning New York Times columnist and author Carl Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and through the history of its discovery.

This book, "LIFE AFTER THE JAB: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," sets out to explore the profound and wide-ranging impacts of these COVID-19 vaccinations. It is not just a medical review but a tapestry of human experiences and societal shifts. Here, we will navigate through the calm waters and turbulent storms of post-vaccine life, examining the benefits, confronting the risks, and confronting unexpected consequences.

Measles, once seemingly defeated, is resurgent around the globe. Why, at a time when biomedical science is so advanced, do parents turn away from vaccination, endangering their own children and the health of the wider population? Using a combination of patient narrative, historical analysis, and scientific research, Dr. Adam Ratner, pediatrician and infectious disease specialist, argues that the reawakening of measles and the subsequent coronavirus pandemic are bellwethers of forgotten knowledge—indicators of decaying trust in science and an underfunded public health infrastructure.

COVID-19 for Dummies is a quick crash course for people with COVID-19 and long COVID who want to learn more about how to treat and manage their symptoms. Anyone who wants to know more about this new disease will appreciate this trustworthy Dummies guide.

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition. McNeill’s highly acclaimed work is a brilliant and challenging account of the effects of disease on human history. His sophisticated analysis and detailed grasp of the subject make this book fascinating to listen to.

Diferentemente de desastres naturais, cuja destruição está concentrada em uma área limitada por um período de dias, doenças infecciosas têm o terrível poder de destruir o cotidiano das pessoas em escala global, consumindo de forma avassaladora recursos públicos e privados e interrompendo o comércio e o transporte. No mundo de hoje, é muito fácil deslocar pessoas, animais e materiais pelo planeta, mas os mesmos avanços que tornaram as infraestruturas do mundo moderno tão eficientes também transformaram as epidemias e pandemias em situações praticamente inevitáveis.

Em 1918, um novo vírus de influenza, até então restrito às aves, passou a se manifestar também em humanos. Um ano mais tarde, o saldo era de pelo menos 100 mil mortos daquela que ficaria conhecida na história como gripe espanhola, marcando o primeiro grande embate entre a ciência e uma pandemia. Em apenas dois anos o vírus matou mais pessoas do que a Aids em todo o mundo ao longo dos 24 anos desde a sua descoberta, e mais pessoas em um ano do que a peste negra ao longo de um século.

Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics—how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to prepare for the next one....

Having once aspired to be a journalist, Griggs found that the only way to make sense of what she was witnessing around her and maintain her sanity was to keep a diary. The Sky Was Falling is her day-to-day account of what most of us were grateful to only see in the news—the sharply increasing case numbers, the dwindling supply of respirators, the lack of clarity on how to treat this new disease.

2020 will go down alongside 1914, 1929, and 1968 as one of the most consequential years in history. This riveting and affecting book is the first attempt to capture the full human experience of that fateful time. At the heart of 2020 are seven vivid profiles of ordinary New Yorkers—including an elementary school principal, a bar manager, a subway custodian, and a local political aide—whose experiences illuminate how Americans, and people across the globe, reckoned with 2020.

The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholars and the general public. Many books on the plague rely on statistics to tell the story. In The Great Mortality, author John Kelly lends an air of immediacy and intimacy to his telling of the journey of the plague as it traveled from the steppes of Russia, across Europe, and into England, killing 75 million people—one third of the known population—before it vanished.

The Covid-19 pandemic was the most devastating natural event of the last century, killing more than 7 million people around the globe, straining the fabric of societies internationally, and shaking the foundations of the global economy. And yet, as horrifying as the experience was, Covid-19 was not actually “the Big One”—the dreaded potential pandemic that haunts the nightmares of epidemiologists and public health officials everywhere, and which will alter life across the world on every meaningful level unless we are ready to deal with it.

During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed facility, dubbed “the pest house” where “no one left alive.”

This book is one to explain why God may have allowed this plague to come into our world. There are evil, crooked, wicked, racist, judgmental, and unfair people in the world. He is not pleased with us right now. He has allowed this plague to show up like he will when he comes back, like a thief in the night. If we do not begin to love one another and to treat each other fairly, who knows what could happen in our lives to get our attention? For those who read this, you may find yourselves in one of these chapters. We must do better. We cannot ignore what has happened.

Are you struggling by being trapped in toxic connections? Do you often feel drained, belittled, and torn between love and manipulation? I've walked a mile in your shoes, feeling ensnared by those who take advantage of my empathy, especially narcissists. That profound sensitivity that defines us can sometimes become our Achilles' heel, chaining us to energy vampires. But what if there's a way out, a path to reclaim our power and finally breathe free?