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    Pale Rider

    The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

    by Laura Spinney ...
    Narrated by Paul Hodgson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 4 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I.In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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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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    The Long Covid Handbook

    by Gez Medinger, Professor Danny Altmann ...
    Narrated by Gez Medinger, Professor Danny Altmann ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 53 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.2% of the population are living with Long Covid with reports that there are over 100m worldwide, yet information and treatment remains scarce. This book fills the information gap.The Long Covid Handbook is the essential guide for anyone suffering with the condition, as well as clinicians seeking to better understand this little understood syndrome.Bringing together the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Silent Fire

    The Story of Inflammation, Diet and Disease

    by Shilpa Ravella ...
    Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 1 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Hidden inflammation lies behind many modern diseases. Shilpa Ravella, an expert in nutrition and the gut, explains why our immune systems are turning against us and what we might do about it.'Controlling Inflammation is the key to good health and this beautifully written and researched book is the best way to understand it' TIM SPECTOR, #1 bestselling author of Food for ... Read more

    $22.99 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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    Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World

    by Irwin W. Sherman ...
    Narrated by Chris Sorensen ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 43 min

    This book covers the history of twelve important diseases and addresses public health responses and societal upheavals. - Chronicles the ways disease outbreaks shaped traditions and institutions of Western civilization. - Explains the effects, causes, and outcomes from past epidemics. - Describes a dozen diseases to show how disease control either was achieved or failed. - Makes clear the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Pandemic Pivot

    A Report from the Institute for Policy Studies, the Transnational Institute, and Focus on the Global South

    by John Feffer ...
    Narrated by John Feffer ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 26 min

    Transformative change can come out of the COVID-19 crisis, which has exposed everything that's wrong with decades of the world's governments betting on militarism, competition, and wealth creation. A return to sanity and humane governance is still possible. We need a pandemic pivot. In June and July of 2020, the Institute for Policy Studies invited sixty-eight of the world's leading thinkers and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Duel Without End

    Mankind’s Battle with Microbes

    by Stig S. Frøland ...
    Narrated by Daniel Thomas May ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 41 min

    From pre-dawn to COVID-19, from ancient plagues to future microbial threats, a sweeping look at the past, present, and future of infectious diseases-and how we battle them. In this panoramic and up-to-date account, we learn how the Black Death, smallpox, the 1918 influenza pandemic, and other great epidemics have not only led to enormous suffering and mass death but have also contributed to the ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How To Get Rid of Acne

    Your Step By Step Guide To Getting Rid of Acne

    by HowExpert, Elda Watulo ...
    Narrated by Marenn Davis ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 17 min

    If you want to get rid of your acne, then get "How To Get Rid of Acne" by a person with real life experience doing this.This step by step guide mainly focuses on acne. It talks about the main causes of acne, its types as well as various ways through which one can get rid of it completely. Further, the guide looks at the various methods one can use to remove scars left behind by acne. The main ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Vild virus

    by Jens Lundgren, Lars Igum Rasmussen ...
    Narrated by Jesper Bøllehuus ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 32 min

    Virus har sat dagsordenen i Jens Lundgrens arbejdsliv, lige siden han som helt ung læge stod ved sygesengen hos dødsmærkede aidspatienter og forskede i at finde en effektiv medicinsk mehandling til dem. Resultatet kan alverdens hiv-patienter takke ham for i dag.Siden coronapandemiens start har han knoklet for at hjælpe livstruede patienter og udvikle nye behandlinger med videnskabeligt ... Read more

    $48.99 AUD

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    My Spirit Took You In

    The Romance that Sparked an Epidemic of Fear: A Memoir of the Life and Death of Thomas Eric Duncan, America's First Ebola Victim

    by Louise Troh, Christine Wicker ...
    Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 28 min

    Louise Troh-fiancEe of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first man ever to die of Ebola in America-breaks her silence about her experience in this deeply moving memoir, chronicling the decade-long love story that starts in Liberia and ends in an isolation ward in Dallas, Texas. ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Undercover Epicenter Nurse

    How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital

    by Erin Marie Olszewski, BSN, RN, J. B. Handley ...
    Narrated by Shirl Rae ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski's most deeply held values were put to the test when she arrived as a travel nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. After serving in Iraq, she was back on the front lines-and this time, she found, the situation was even worse. Rooms were filthy, nurses were lax with sanitation measures, and hospital-acquired ... Read more

    $29.99 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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    Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak

    A Guide to Planning from the Schoolhouse to the White House

    by David C. Pate, MD, JD, Ted Epperly, MD ...
    Narrated by Peter Lerman ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours

    Another pandemic is coming. We need to identify the lessons learned from our successes and failures during the COVID-19 pandemic to plan better for our future response. In Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak, David C. Pate, MD, JD, and Ted Epperly, MD, combine their decades of experience as doctors and health care leaders who have led their organizations through numerous public health ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Infectious Madness

    The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness

    by Harriet A. Washington ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    A groundbreaking look at the connection between germs and mental illness, and how we can protect ourselves.Is it possible to catch autism or OCD the same way we catch the flu? Can a child's contact with cat litter lead to schizophrenia? In her eye-opening new book, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Harriet Washington reveals that we can in fact "catch" mental illness. In Infectious ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Carl Zimmer: Planet of Viruses

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    7 min

    Consider these facts from Carl Zimmer’s book, A Planet of Viruses: If you put all the viruses in the ocean on a scale, they would equal the weight of 75 million blue whales. And if you lined up all those viruses end to end, “they would stretch out past the nearest 60 galaxies.”In 17th century England, Zimmer writes, cures for the rhinovirus, or the common cold, included a blend of gunpowder and ... Read more

    $1.99 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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    Коронавирус и другие инфекции: CoVарные реалии мировых эпидемий

    by Андрей Сазонов ...
    Narrated by Андрей Новокрещенов ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    Человечество живет, развивается, переживает войны и катаклизмы, преодолевает вспышки заболеваний, существенно редея после них… Эпидемии были, есть и будут частью истории человечества. Они – неотъемлемая часть нашего мира, с которой мы обязаны только смириться.Сможем ли мы когда-нибудь ликвидировать все болезни? Маловероятно. Можно уничтожить конкретного возбудителя, как это случилось с вирусом ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Good Virus

    The Untold Story of Phages: The Most Abundant Life Forms on Earth and What They Can Do For Us

    by Tom Ireland ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    The untold story of the most abundant life form on Earth, bacteriophages, and how they play a crucial role in our lives, our health and the health of our planet.Winner of the Giles St Aubyn Award 2021Not all viruses are out to get us - in fact, the viruses that do us harm are vastly outnumbered by viruses that can actually save lives.At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions ... Read more

    $46.99 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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    Hot Spot

    A Doctor's Diary From the Pandemic

    by Dr. Alex Jahangir ...
    Narrated by Shawn K. Jain ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    When Nashville identified its first case of coronavirus in March 2020, the city was between Public Health Department directors and as unprepared as the rest of the world for what was to come. Dr. Alex Jahangir, a trauma surgeon acting at that time as chair of the Metro Nashville Board of Health, unexpectedly found himself head of the city's COVID-19 Task Force and responsible for leading it ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial