Comments on: Cheap science book deals https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/08/18/cheap-science-book-deals/ Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:57:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: metzomagic https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/08/18/cheap-science-book-deals/#comment-455034 Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:57:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24398#comment-455034 Proud owner of The Coming Plague for at least 10 years. Great read. Plus, c’mon: why wouldn’t sciency types like us want to learn everything they can about the history of the likes of of ebola, Marburg, etc.?

But the last chapter is the scariest, actually. It’s about how the overuse of antibiotics during the decades I was growing up led to the evolution of superbugs like MRSA, and how our efforts to combat them are one of the greatest challenges medicine has ever faced.

]]> By: Lionel A https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/08/18/cheap-science-book-deals/#comment-455033 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:28:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24398#comment-455033 ISTR reading ‘The Hot Zone’, was the origin an island in Northern Lake Victoria, Africa?

How about a narrative on the influenza outbreak that killed so many towards the vend of and following WW1:

‘Catching Cold’ Pete Davis.

]]> By: Mentifex (Arthur T. Murray) https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/08/18/cheap-science-book-deals/#comment-455032 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 10:15:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24398#comment-455032 Le Plague — c’est moi.

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