Ebola. Cholera. Avian flu. What’s Next?
Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of global contagions.
Over 300 infectious diseases have newly emerged or re-emerged in new territory over the past 50 years, and 90% of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations.
But which one? And how?
To answer these questions, Pandemic draws parallels between the story of cholera—one of history’s most disruptive and deadly pathogens—and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs.
Written by critically acclaimed science journalist Sonia Shah and based on five years of reporting around the world, Pandemic reveals what the next contagion might look like—and what we can do to prevent it.
Sonia Shah’s TEDMED video on rethinking new diseases and the origins of pandemics, “How Unhealthy Paradigms Become Contagious.”
A short video trailer about Sonia Shah’s new book, PANDEMIC: Tracking contagions from cholera to Ebola and beyond (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Feb 23, 2016), now available for pre-order.)