We learned from our mistakes… right?

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Two really good books on the topic from back in the 90s, talking about the potential for an Ebola-like hemmoragic fever outbreak, highly contagious and highly fatal.

    The Hot Zone - reads like an adventure novel, or a sensationalistic news story.

    Later adapted as a TV show:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone

    The Coming Plague - Same story, but reads like a painstakingly researched NYT article complete with a bunch of notations.

    https://www.lauriegarrett.com/the-coming-plague

    Worth reading both of them back to back. Hot Zone goes super fast, 2-3 hours, tops. Coming Plague is a deeper read.

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      3 months ago

      Arent there a lot of videos out there of experts (hell even Bill Gates) in the last 2 decades talking about not if a pandemic will happen, but a when?