Pandemics, Plagues, and Patient ZERO
It can be scary times what with COVID and other crises. So how about a fresh look at how we’ve handled it all before? From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, 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.
Learn the tragic stories of Patient Zeros throughout history, such as Mabalo Lokela, who contracted Ebola while on vacation in 1976, and the Lewis Baby on London’s Broad Street, the first to catch cholera in an 1854 outbreak that led to a major medical breakthrough. Interspersed are origin stories of a different sort—how a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small village in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more.
AS USUAL there will be prizes, give-aways, swag–and the ever popular book themed cocktail! Registered attendees get to name it, and the recipe! Join us for a wonderful, weird time!
BOOKS make great holiday gifts!
MORE ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Website Lydia: https://lydiakang.com/https://lydiakang.com/
Twitter: com/LydiaYKang
Website Nate Pendersen: https://natepedersen.com/
