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Contagious Audiobooks

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    Deadliest Enemy

    Our War Against Killer Germs

    by Dr Michael Osterholm, Mark Olshaker ...
    Narrated by Jamie Renell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 25 min

    The USA Today Bestseller'The infectious disease expert who predicted the spread of coronavirus' - Daily Mail'Osterholm has produced a sharp, persuasive and urgent manifesto for how the world needs to think differently about natural threats, offering a blueprint for setting priorities and explaining why the infrastructure of global health needs reconfiguring... Deadliest Enemy will help to set the ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Spillover

    Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

    by David Quammen ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 47 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can tackle a global pandemic.As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but that can be transmitted to humans. Diseases that were contained are being set free and the ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Science Goes Viral

    Captivating Accounts of Science in Everyday Life

    by Dr. Joe Schwarcz ...
    Narrated by Raoul Bhaneja ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 53 min

    Bestselling popular science author Dr. Joe Schwarcz breaks down the science of essential oils, placenta creams, intermittent fasting, and of course the spread of COVID-19 misinformation in this new collection from the master of demarcating non-science from scienceScience has gone viral! In more ways than one.Since we first heard rumblings about a novel type of pneumonia in Wuhan, China, terms like ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Emergency State

    How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters

    by Adam Wagner ...
    Narrated by Adam Wagner ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 42 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.On 26 March 2020, a new law appeared. In 11 pages, it locked down tens of millions of people, confined us to our homes, banned socialising, closed shops, gyms, pubs, places of worship. It restricted our freedoms more than any other law in history, justified by the rapid spread of a deadly new virus.You might have expected such a law to be fiercely debated in Parliament. ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Pandemic Century

    A History of Global Contagion

    by Mark Honigsbaum ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 40 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A Financial Times Best Book of the YearThe most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics.Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    First, Wear a Face Mask

    A Doctor's Guide to Reducing Risk of Infection During the Pandemic and Beyond

    by Dr. Philip M. Tierno Jr. ...
    Narrated by Jim Seybert ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 11 min

    Stay safe and stay calm. A New York University microbiologist gives you the knowledge you need to protect yourself from COVID-19 and other common infectious diseases.With the spread of COVID-19, the world has never felt less safe. And with so much advice out there, it's hard to know whether you're taking the right precautions to stay safe. Don't panic: there are simple steps you can take to best ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Stopping the Next Pandemic

    How Covid-19 Can Help Us Save Humanity

    by Debora MacKenzie ...
    Narrated by Cynthia Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 12 min

    'Excellent . . . analyses clearly and authoritatively how the coronavirus pandemic played out, what governments should have done, and what we need to do when it happens again - as it undoubtedly will' Financial Times'You could not hope for a better guide to the pandemic world order than Debora MacKenzie, who's been on this story from the start. This is an authoritative yet readable explanation of ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Leading Through A Pandemic

    The Inside Story of Humanity, Innovation, and Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Crisis

    by Michael J. Dowling, Charles Kenney ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    What was it like at the epicenter, inside the health system that cared for more COVID-19 patients than any other in the United States? Leading Through a Pandemic: The Inside Story of Lessons Learned about Innovation, Leadership, and Humanity During the COVID-19Crisis takes readers inside Northwell Health, New York's largest health system. From the C-suite to the front lines, the book reports on ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Life, Death and Biscuits

    by Anthea Allen ...
    Narrated by Anthea Allen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 48 min

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line of the toughest battle our nurses have had to fight. Anthea Allen’s writing is raw, honest and full of love for those she cares for.’ Susanna ReidAn extraordinarily powerful memoir based on the diaries of intensive care nurse Anthea Allen, who worked on the front line of one of the largest hospitals in ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Unmasked

    COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji

    by Emily Mendenhall ...
    Narrated by Joana Garcia ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 57 min

    Unmasked is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred in the COVID summer of 2020. State political failures, local negotiations among political and public health leaders, and community (dis)belief about the virus resulted in Okoboji being declared a hotspot just before the Independence Day weekend, when an ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Summary of Sharri Markson's What Really Happened in Wuhan

    by Falcon Press ...
    Narrated by Paul Bartlett ...

    Unabridged

    24 min

    Buy now to get the main key ideas from Sharri Markson's What Really Happened in WuhanIn What Really Happened in Wuhan (2021), Australian journalist Sharri Markson provides evidence for the potential cause of Covid-19, with an investigation of government cover-ups and the peculiar activities within the Wuhan Institute of Virology throughout the months leading up to the start of the pandemic.The ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Ruby Princess

    by Duncan McNab ...
    Narrated by David Tredinnick ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    In the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2020, the luxury cruise liner Ruby Princess docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, the gateway to Australia.Hours later, 2700 passengers disembarked. Yet in the middle of a pandemic sweeping the planet, there were no health checks. Over the next few days, the passengers got some bad news. The COVID-19 virus had infected some on the ship, and it spread rapidly. ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    World War C

    Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One

    by Dr Sanjay Gupta ...
    Narrated by Dr Sanjay Gupta ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, offers an accessible, data-packed answer to our biggest questions about Covid-19: What have we learned about this pandemic and how can we prepare for - or prevent - the next one?Frontline Covid-19 health journalist, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has barely left his primetime seat in his makeshift studio basement since the pandemic began (other than to perform ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    When Germs Travel

    Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed

    by Howard Markel ...
    Narrated by Steven Jay Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 37 min

    The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies make their way into the headlines, we are faced with vaccine shortages, and the threat of germ warfare has reemerged as a worldwide threat. In this riveting account, medical historian Howard Markel takes an eye-opening look at the fragility of the American public ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Ending Epidemics

    A History of Escape from Contagion

    by Richard Conniff ...
    Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 30 min

    After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be hard to imagine a time not so long ago when deadly diseases were a routine part of life. It is harder still to fathom that the best medical thinking at that time blamed these diseases on noxious miasmas, bodily humors, and divine dyspepsia. This all began to change on a day in April 1676, when a little-known Dutch merchant ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Pandemics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christian W. McMillen ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours

    Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease. This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics-plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, and HIV/AIDS-highlighting how each disease ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    COVID-19 and World Order

    The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation

    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 45 min

    The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also devastating the world economy. The consequences of the pandemic, however, go much further: they threaten the fabric of national and international politics around the world. As Henry Kissinger warned, "The coronavirus epidemic will forever alter the world order." What will be the consequences ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Plague

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Paul Slack ...
    Narrated by Gareth Richards ...

    Unabridged

    32 min

    Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the "Plague of Justinian" in 542, the Black Death of 1348, and the Great Plague of London in 1665, as well as for devastating epidemics in China and India between the 1890s and 1920s. In the twenty-first century Coronavirus pandemics have served as a powerful reminder that we have not escaped the global ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Summary of Alina Chan and Matt Ridley’s Viral

    by Falcon Press ...
    Narrated by Glenn Argenti ...

    Unabridged

    23 min

    Buy now to get the main key ideas from Alina Chan and Matt Ridley’s ViralViral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 (2021) explores the possible origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. Co-authors Alina Chan and Matt Ridley examine both the lab leak and natural origin theories while making clear that more research is needed to prevent such occurrences from happening again. They provide a transparent and ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Cuidando a tus seres queridos con cáncer - Como afrontar el inicio de esta nueva etapa, prevenciones y decisiones - Parte 1

    by Elayne Cok ...
    Narrated by Angel Martinez ...
    Audiobook 1 - Cuidando a tus seres queridos con cáncer

    Unabridged

    1 hour 2 min

    HABLEMOS SOBRE EL CÁNCER…Es un tema delicado, doloroso y complicado de aceptar… pero no imposible de superar.Empecemos con una breve introducción… el cuerpo humano se rige por un proceso en el que las células del cuerpo se desarrollan y empiezan a crecer y cuando nuestro organismo lo necesite, estas células se empiezan a multiplicar para seguir con los procesos de desarrollo, ya que dichas células ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    新型冠状病毒感染的肺炎预防手册Pneumonia Prevention Handbook for Novel Coronavirus Infection

    by 浙江省疾病预防控制中心Zhejiang CDC ...
    Narrated by 浙江教育出版社Zhejiang Education Press ...

    Unabridged

    32 min

    内容简介本书于2020年1月出版，由浙江出版联合集团、浙江教育出版社联合浙江省疾病预防控制中心组织专家编写。该书主要分为基础篇、诊疗篇、预防篇、常见问题篇及附录，以图文并茂、通俗易懂的方式，指导个人防护，降低传播风险。希望广大群众不信谣、不传谣，少出门、不聚会，讲卫生、戴口罩，用科学的态度、积极的措施防护自己、保护他人，打一场疫情防控的人民战争。2020年1月，湖北省武汉市多个地区发生新型冠状病毒感染的肺炎疫情。该疫情正值春运，人员流动大、范围广，疫情防控工作面临严峻挑战。打赢这场看不见硝烟的战争，必须动员更多人争分夺秒，“与病毒做一场赛跑”。浙江省疾病预防控制中心、浙江教育出版社彰显使命担当，服务大局，服务社会，服务大众连夜组织专家紧急编制《新型冠状病毒感染的肺炎预防手册》，普及疫情防控科学知识，发声指导。作者简介夏时畅，浙江省疾病预防控制中心健康促进与教育学首席专家，浙江省 ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Soap and Water & Common Sense

    The definitive guide to viruses, bacteria, parasites and disease

    by Dr. Bonnie Henry ...
    Narrated by Dawn Harvey ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 9 min

    The definitive guide to fighting coronaviruses, colds, flus, pandemics, and deadly diseases, from one of North America’s leading public health authorities, now updated with a new introduction on protecting yourself and others from COVID-19.Dr. Bonnie Henry, a leading epidemiologist (microbe hunter) and public health doctor at the forefront of the fight against the worldwide COVID-19 coronavirus ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Virus

    Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America's Response to the Pandemic

    by Nina Burleigh ...
    Narrated by Nina Burleigh ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 3 min

    A few months before the virus slammed the world, global public health experts declared the United States the most prepared for a possible pandemic. Instead, we watched as the disease killed half a million Americans. A stunned nation has been too busy grieving and doing damage control to ask why, or to comprehend just how much of the blundering and chaos of the pandemic response was either ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

    by Arup K. Chakraborty, Andrey S. Shaw ...
    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 47 min

    Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics, but the devastation wrought by them had been largely forgotten by the twenty-first century. Now, the enormous human and economic toll of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 disease offers a vivid reminder that infectious disease pandemics are one of the greatest existential threats to humanity. This book provides an accessible explanation of how ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial