by SONIA SHAH
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With the Zika virus washing over the Americas, the question as to where new pathogens come from and how they cause pandemics has gained new urgency. It’s a question I’ve been pondering for the last 6 years, and I’ve travelled over 20,000 miles and delved into the deep history of pandemics to answer it. I’m so pleased to tell you that the result, my fourth book, PANDEMIC: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, is now available from Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Called “superbly written,” (The Economist) ,”absorbing, complex, and ominous,” (Publishers Weekly) and “necessary” (Kirkus Reviews), it’s been featured in The New York Times, CNN, BBC, and elsewhere.
I’ll be speaking about pandemics at the following upcoming events. Please tune in and join me!
February 22, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR
February 23, 6 pm-8 pm. New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY. With leading emerging-disease experts Dr. Ian Lipkin and Dr. Peter Daszak and journalists Amy Maxmen and Carl Geistorfer. Sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
February 26, 7 pm. Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC.
February 29, 7:30 pm. Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA
March 2, noon. Talks@GoogleNYC. (Private)
March 18. Salt Lake City, UT (Private)
March 19, Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA