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    Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
    Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
    Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
    Audiobook11 hours

    Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak

    Written by Reid Wilson

    Narrated by Jonathan Yen

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    A global health catastrophe narrowly averted. A world unprepared for the next great threat.

    In December 2013, a young boy in a tiny West African village contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The virus spread to his relatives, then to neighboring communities, then across international borders. The world's first urban Ebola outbreak quickly overwhelmed the global health system and threatened to kill millions.

    In an increasingly interconnected world in which everyone is one or two flights away from New York or London or Beijing, even a localized epidemic can become a pandemic. Ebola's spread through West Africa to Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States sounded global alarms that the next killer outbreak is right around the corner-and that the world is woefully unprepared to combat a new deadly disease.

    From the poorest villages of rural West Africa to the Oval Office itself, this book tells the story of a deadly virus that spun wildly out of control-and reveals the truth about how close the world came to a catastrophic global pandemic.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 2, 2018
    ISBN9781977386878
    Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak

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    • 5/5
      So prophetic. This guy warned us of our new normal well in advance but no one listened. As a result, we got what we deserved for our ignorance and stupidity. In the end of the book, he describes corona, well before the pandemic was on the horizon, and warned that after so many warnings and fatal outbreaks in the past, we still hadn't learned and weren't prepared. He was so right. We were so stupid. Wow. He described it as his greatest nightmare...it became our reality because we didn't listen.
    • 4/5
      Having listened to the audio not thr text, I don't know if it's the same or if it's exclusive to the narration. But repeating the phrase for every single acronym government agency, every time got old fast. The audio could have been shorter by half probably for all the acronym repetition.
    • 5/5
      Wilson's Epidemic is more informative and less dramatized than other Ebola books. Some of the takeaway sections about poor government responses to epidemics certainly hit close to home these days though.