Pandemia: World History of Deadly Infections

In the past 50 years, more than 300 infectious diseases have occurred for the first time or re -in new territories. Experts around the world are intensely preparing for a crushing deadly epidemic.
In the book “Pandemia”, a scientific journalist Sonya Shah awarded to professional awards shows how it can happen by drawing parallels between the cholera - one of the most dangerous and terrible pathogens in the world - and new diseases that are storing us today.
Describing the stages of the dramatic procession of cholera - from a harmless microbe to a pandemic capable of changing the world, the Shah tells about the pathogens following it: starting with the Bacteria of the MRS, which struck its own family, to new, unprecedented murders who appear on the Chinese Grocery markets, in the surgical chambers of Delhi, in the slums of Porto-Prens and on the urban outskirts of the eastern coast. The picture is impressive and alarming.
The book deeply explores the issues of difficult science, strange politics and confusing history of one of the worst diseases in the world, warning about a possible future that cannot be ignored