5/21/2023 0 Comments Mister Touch by Malcolm BosseHere’s a full list of Stephen King books.ĭaniel Defoe. “Captain Trips,” a weaponized form of influenza is accidentally released on a remote U.S. Deals with the Swine flu epidemic that begin at an army base in Kansas and killed more people than died in World War I. One hundred stories written around and about the time of the Black Death in Italy during the 14 th century. So, before you succumb to H7N9, here are 20 books, both fictional and non-fiction, about disease and death. Chinese citizens with mild symptoms aren’t being tested and rumors circulate that the real case statistics are being suppressed to protect Chinese economic interests as the people of China are told to sit quietly and drink their herbal teas.Īre these are the rumblings of an epic pandemic about to cover the earth? Are we all going to die? Or maybe a third of us? Perhaps just the old me? No one knows.īut, our natural fear of deadly viruses is rooted firmly in history and set ablaze by our imagination. Infected birds don’t show symptoms and the Chinese military officials are claiming the Americans created it. Imagine this on the back of a book cover: But if you spent as many hours translating microblogs from Mandarin as some amateur epidemiologists do, you’d be concerned the story of H7N9 was almost too strange not to be fiction. It’s been a while since the news was overrun with stories on the H7N9 bird flu – but not so long ago the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Chinese government were convincing folks not to panic…yet. This pre-Spanish Flu classic is a great place to start.
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