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    "title": "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond ",
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    "description": "Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how?\n\nOver the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territories where they\u2019ve never been seen before. Ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. It could be Ebola, avian flu, a drug-resistant superbug, or something completely new. While we can\u2019t know which pathogen will cause the next pandemic, by unraveling the story of how pathogens have caused pandemics in the past, we can make predictions about the future. In Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, the prizewinning journalist Sonia Shah\u2014whose book on malaria, The Fever, was called a \u201ctour-de-force history\u201d (The New York Times) and \u201crevelatory\u201d (The New Republic)\u2014interweaves history, original reportage, and personal narrative to explore the origins of contagions, drawing parallels between cholera, one of history\u2019s most deadly and disruptive pandemic-causing pathogens, and the new diseases that stalk humankind today.\n\nTo reveal how a new pandemic might develop, Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera\u2019s dramatic journey, from its emergence in the South Asian hinterlands as a harmless microbe to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world, all the way to its latest beachhead in Haiti. Along the way she reports on the pathogens now following in cholera\u2019s footsteps, from the MRSA bacterium that besieges her own family to the never-before-seen killers coming out of China\u2019s wet markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast.\n\nBy delving into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world\u2019s deadliest diseases, Pandemic reveals what the next global contagion might look like\u2014 and what we can do to prevent it.",
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