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Infectious Diseases Audiobooks

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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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    Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    Narrated by Niall Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 35 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?While populist rulers certainly ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Apollo's Arrow

    The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

    by Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD ...
    Narrated by Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 10 min

    A piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—"excellent and timely." (The New Yorker)Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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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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    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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    Phantom Plague

    How Tuberculosis Shaped History

    by Vidya Krishnan ...
    Narrated by Sneha Mathan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 53 min

    The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world.It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others – rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body.In ... Read more

    $49.99 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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    Epidemiology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rodolfo Saracci ...
    Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 27 min

    Epidemiology plays an all-important role in many areas of medicine, from discovering the relationship between tobacco smoking and lung cancer, to documenting the impact of diet, the environment, and exercise on general health, to tracking the origin and spread of new epidemics such as Swine Flu. It is truly a vital field, central to the health of society, but it is often poorly understood, largely ... Read more

    $19.99 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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    Corona Virus Guide

    What You Need to Know

    by National Publisher ...
    Narrated by National Publisher ...

    Unabridged

    22 min

    Corona virus is a common form of respiratory virus, but in late 2019 and into 2020, it has been making headlines due to its spread, and the rising death toll as more and more cases are reported.This new strain of corona virus, termed 2019-nCoV, began in China, but with travel far more common than it used to be, cases have been reported in an ever-increasing number of countries. In the US, more and ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Pandemic Aftermath

    How Coronavirus Changes Global Society

    by Trond Undheim ...
    Narrated by Trond Undheim ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 39 min

    A tour the force of contemporary social science, written by a futurist at the forefront of technology and change.Pandemic Aftermath offers suggestions to remedy its consequences, or even enable segments of society to thrive on it. The first portion of the book is non-fiction. The second portion is a scenario-based novel, the book charts new territory by interweaving the grim reality of 2020 with a ... 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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    Bergamo e la marea

    by Davide De Luca, Davide De Luca ...
    Narrated by Elena Gianni ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    Dopo la Spagnola del 1918, nessuna epidemia ha colpito una città così duramente come il Coronavirus ha colpito Bergamo. Migliaia di famiglie hanno perso i loro cari e tra la città e le sue valli non se ne trova una che non abbia sofferto almeno un lutto. Hanno fatto il giro del mondo le immagini dei mezzi militari usati per trasportare le bare dei morti fuori dalla provincia che non riusciva più a ... Read more

    $15.99 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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    Conosci il tuo nemico

    Cos'è, da dove viene e cosa ci insegna il coronavirus

    by Valerio Rossi Albertini ...
    Narrated by Stefano Sfondrini ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 11 min

    Da uno dei volti più amati della divulgazione scientifica in tv, un vademecum agile e completo sul coronavirus, per capire cos’è, da dove viene, quali sono i comportamenti corretti per difendersi e cosa occorre sapere per non averne (troppa) paura.Il 23 gennaio 2020 abbiamo scoperto che nella città cinese di Wuhan, che in pochi avevano sentito nominare, era scoppiata una strana epidemia. Le ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918

    by Oscar Jewell Harvey ...
    Narrated by Chris Mathews ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 46 min

    Early in September, 1918, the United States was invaded by a scourge of highly infectious and fatal disease, which spread with rapidity throughout the country, eventually infecting 500 million people worldwide, or about 27% of the world population, killing anywhere from 17 million to as many as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in human history.Known as Spanish Influenza, it ... Read more

    $11.99 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

    $9.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    American Contagions

    Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19

    by John Fabian Witt ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 55 min

    A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagion, "taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to COVID-19. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arrives at is devastating." -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Summary of Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta's Nightmare Scenario

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

    Unabridged

    21 min

    Buy now to get the main key ideas from Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta's Nightmare ScenarioThe Coronavirus demonstrated to the world how a single disease could bring one of the most powerful countries in the world, America, to its knees.Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta’s Nightmare Scenario (2021) investigates the complete dysfunction that was the US response effort, led by the Trump ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Pandemic Perspectives

    A filmmaker's journey in 10 essays

    by Howard Burton ...
    Narrated by Howard Burton ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 3 min

    Directly inspired by award-winning author, physician and self-professed “biology watcher” Lewis Thomas, Howard Burton takes us on a thought-provoking tour of a wide range of social and scientific issues which he encountered through the process of making the documentary film, Pandemic Perspectives. Howard provides unique and fresh insights into a wide range of issues ranging from biology to ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial