An inside account of the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases--and the panic and corruption that make them worse Throughout history, humankinds 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--seems imminent, we send our best and bravest doctors to contain it. People like Dr. Ali S. Khan. In his long career as a public health first responder--protected by a thin mask from infected patients, napping under nets to keep out scorpions, making life-and-death decisions on limited, suspect information--Khan has found that rogue microbes will always be a problem, but outbreaks are often caused by people. We make mistakes, politicize emergencies, and, too often, fail to imagine the consequences of our actions. The Next Pandemic is a firsthand account of disasters like anthrax, bird flu, and others--and how we could do more to prevent their return. It is both a gripping story of our brushes with fate and an urgent lesson on how we can keep ourselves safe from the inevitable next pandemic.
- | Author: Ali Khan, William Patrick
- | Publisher: PublicAffairs
- | Publication Date: May 24, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 288 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
- | ISBN-10: 1610395913
- | ISBN-13: 9781610395915
