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Deadly Outbreaks

How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites

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De: Alexandra Levitt
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Take a visit to the frontline as scientists fight to solve medical mysteries.

Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a massive outbreak of drug-resistant microbes.

Deadly Outbreaks recounts the scientific adventures of a special group of intrepid individuals who investigate these outbreaks around the world and figure out how to stop them. Part homicide detective, part physician, these medical investigators must view the problem from every angle, exhausting every possible source of contamination. Any data gathered in the field must be stripped of human sorrows and carefully analyzed into hard statistics.

Author Dr. Alexandra Levitt is an expert on emerging diseases and other public health threats. Here she shares insider accounts she's collected that go behind the alarming headlines we've seen in the media: mysterious food poisonings, unexplained deaths at a children's hospital, a strange neurologic disease afflicting slaughterhouse workers, flocks of birds dropping dead out of the sky, and drug-resistant malaria running rampant in a refugee camp. Meet the resourceful investigators - doctors, veterinarians, and research scientists - and discover the truth behind these cases and more.

©2013 Alexandra Levitt (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Biología Ciencia Ciencias Biológicas Enfermedades Físicas Filosofía Historia Historia y Comentario Historia y Filosofía Industria de la Medicina y Salud Medicina Crimen Cuidado de la salud Medical Fiction
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One of my favorite topics for nonfiction books. However, it's REALLY hard to get past the narrator on this one. It seems to plod along in a very monotone delivery. Common acronyms are spelled out rather than pronounced phonetically (USAMRIID for example). The organization of the chapters seems to vary as well.

The delivery really kills this one

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The material, while done and redone by others before was at least interesting. I had to return it for credit after a few hours because of the narration. The woman sounded like Captain Kirk on heavy sedation. Within the first 5 minutes I cranked it up to 1.25 X speed because she spoke so slowly that It hurt my ears. Even 1.25 was too slow but 1.5X sounded strange. And she had unnatural pauses the way William Shatner did in Star Trek. "The...virus was a particularly.............virulent....strain.....that hadn't been.....seen.....before." Oh, my. Not trying to make fun, but it was awful. After the 7th time of hearing "USAMRIID" spelled out "u-s-a-m-r-i-i-d" I threw in the towel. I'll get a used copy of the book or get it on Kindle if I really want to finish it.

Narrator un-listenable. Captain Kirk at 1/2 speed.

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I really enjoyed listening to this book. But the Chapter narration does not match the chapter displayed.

Beautifully written and narrated

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I don’t know why but I love to read/listen to books about outbreaks and viruses. This is a solid book about outbreaks I remember from when I was younger. It doesn’t include the COVID outbreak but it details how they are investigated and hunted down.

I like this stuff

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When the science was presented, it was presented well, with a good balance of information for the layperson interested in epidemiology, like myself. It was the biographies of the people involved, how the personnel were recently married, or engaged, were introverts or extroverts, etc, etc, that lost my interest. I was interested in some of the science and history of epidemiology, not particularly in mini-biographies of some epidemiologists.

Also, and this annoyed me the whole chapter, a serial murder, while interesting in another context, is not an "outbreak." Even if it was thought to be an outbreak prior to investigation. I felt that chapter, three, I think, should have been in another book entirely.

Finally, the narration was adequate at best. A friend who I gave a ride to asked if this was an AI voice assistant reading the book, like Alexa or SIri. The sentences had odd breaks e.g. "hundreds... of thousands," the words were often oddly or over enunciated... I could only wish for better in the future.

A bit too "human interest" for me.

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The book is great. As a microbiologist I already knew most of the diseases, but the investigations to find the causes and how the EIS, health departments, other organizations and lab personnel worked with medical personnel and patients were covered in an insightful and interesting manner. The reader needs to learn how to pronounce scientific words and acronyms. USAMRIID is pronounced you-SAM-rid, not spelled out. ELISA is pronounced with a long I, not as eleesa. Her frequent mispronunciations drove me crazy, but the book was great enough to ignore them. Each chapter is a biological mystery. If you are at all interested in biology, epidemiology or even good mysteries you will enjoy this book.

Exciting tales of mystery diseases

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Within a few sentences I immediately set the speed to 1.1 because the narrator’s lethargic reading rate was annoying. The author’s use of acronyms for everything makes understanding difficult. It’s like she’s too lazy to write West Nile or New York. Not the best.

Too many acronyms and too slow

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The story is very informative however, the narration is boring. It does help me sleep.

Would prefer a better narrator.

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I really enjoyed this book. The mini stories were in depth enough to keep me interested, and it definitely made me rethink my future career choice.

Very interesting stories

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my wife needed it for here pathogens class in college but I listened to it. It's a good story and easy to understand.

Pretty good book

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