There I was, minding my own business, listening to the most recent episodes in my podcast feed, when the new episode of the “Science History” podcast queued up and began playing. As the subject was – or at least initially seemed to be – the history of the spread of infectious diseases, a particular interest of mine, a cocked an ear and began paying more focused attention. Within ten minutes, my mind was, as the kids say, totally blown.
Written in a style that is very accessible to anyone with a minimum of a secondary school level understanding of biology and mathematics, and supported by helpful illustrations, “Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity” provides clear and straightforward explanations of all the hot topic words and concepts involved in the current pandemic that have been filling the headlines this past year.
For as long as human history has been recorded, and certainly well before that as well, we’ve been afflicted by disease; some minor, some fatal, and up until relatively recently – the past few centuries, for the most part – all largely mysterious in regard to their causes. If the diseases that afflict humans are […]