https://padlet.com/csquadroni/q5gxzr28ik92 A roundup of books that explore pandemics, disease, and dystopias both real and imagined. en-us 2020-03-26 17:03:46 UTC 2023-01-30 20:23:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png csquadroni https://padlet.com/csquadroni/q5gxzr28ik92/wish/477281996
Juvenile (Gr. 5-8) Nonfiction. What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? How did her name become synonymous with deadly disease? And who is really responsible for the lasting legacy of Typhoid Mary?

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Teen Nonfiction. How close are we to having another worldwide health crisis? Epidemiologists predict that another pandemic is coming--one that could kill hundreds of millions of people. Learn about factors that contribute to the spread of disease by examining past pandemics and epidemics. Can scientists control the spread of disease and prevent the next pandemic?

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Borrow from SJCPL]]> 2020-03-27 01:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/csquadroni/q5gxzr28ik92/wish/477590122 csquadroni https://padlet.com/csquadroni/q5gxzr28ik92/wish/477595539 Adult Fiction. Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band's existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.

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Borrow from SJCPL]]> 2020-03-27 01:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/csquadroni/q5gxzr28ik92/wish/477595539 csquadroni https://padlet.com/csquadroni/q5gxzr28ik92/wish/477599982 Adult Nonfiction. 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 surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic, through the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last one hundred years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms.

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Borrow from SJCPL]]> 2020-03-27 03:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/csquadroni/q5gxzr28ik92/wish/477660295 csquadroni https://padlet.com/csquadroni/q5gxzr28ik92/wish/478373681 Adult Nonfiction. For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin—a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong’s tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide. To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable—or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued.

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