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Patient Zero with Dr. Lydia Kang As long as there have been humans, there has been disease.  Before COVID-19, there was plague, yellow fever, mad cow disease, and countless other sinister maladies. But alongside illness has also come innovation and ingenuity, spurred by a drive to understand and to cure. From the authors of Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, an NPR “Best Science Book Of 2017,” comes PATIENT ZERO: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases. It’s a fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, and the science that ultimately allows us to overcome them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tntbsmedia/message