The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind¿s Gravest Dangers

An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases — and the panic and corruption that make them worse.


Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but when a new threat — Ebola, SARS, Zika, coronavirus — seems imminent, we send our best and bravest doctors to contain it. People like Dr. Ali S. Khan.


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