num_pages: 400
description: A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and their patient zeros), plus chapters on the science, culture, and cures for different types of epidemics and pandemics. Popular reading on a timely topic.
language: English
title: Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
publisher: Workman Publishing Company