Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/124491to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ending Epidemics Author: Richard Conniff Narrator: Tom Beyer Format: mp3 Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins Release date: 06-13-23 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: History & Commentary Publisher's Summary: After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be hard to imagine a time not so long ago when deadly diseases were a routine part of life. It is harder still to fathom that the best medical thinking at that time blamed these diseases on noxious miasmas, bodily humors, and divine dyspepsia. This all began to change on a day in April 1676, when a little-known Dutch merchant described bacteria for the first time. Ending Epidemics explains how we came to understand and prevent many of our worst infectious diseases—and double average life expectancy.

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