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Patient zero: a curious history of the world's worst diseases
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Introduction
Infection. Patient zero: ergotism ; Zoonoses : making the leap ; Patient zero : ebola ; Germ theory : from miasma to microscopes ; Patient zero : the plague ; Autopsy : from humoral theory to grave robbing ; Patient zero : mad cow disease ; Anatomy of an outbreak : calling in the public health calvary
Patient zero : yellow fever ; COVID-19 : the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and the politicization of plagues
Spread. Patient zero : HIV ; Indigenous peoples & the Columbian exchange : the "exchange" was not equal ; Patient zero : typhus ; Patient zero : measles ; Patient zero : Hansen's disease (leprosy) ; Patient zero : syphilis ; Quackery : from mercury and bloodletting to hydroxychloroquine ; Patient zero : typhoid fever
Containment. Patient zero : 1918 influenza ; Vaccines : from variolation to messenger RNA ; Patient zero : polio ; Patient zero : hepatitis C ; The infection-disease link : from viruses, bacteria, and parasites to cancer ; Patient zero : cholera ; Anthrax & biological warfare : the weaponization of disease ; Patient zero : rabies ; Tuberculosis : the "all-consuming" disease ; Patient anti-zero : the last smallpox case ; Medical advances : from pandemics to progress.