Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study.” —Nature

Prizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and how history prepares us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time. Now with a new preface written in response to COVID-19.

Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have ...