![]() ![]() ![]() Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more. Her adult fiction debut is entitled A Beautiful Poison. Her YA novels include Control, Catalyst, and the upcoming The November Girl. Interspersed are origin stories of a different sort-how a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small village in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. Lydia Kang, MD, is a practicing internal medicine physician and author of young adult fiction and adult fiction. ![]() Learn the tragic stories of Patient Zeros throughout history, such as Mabalo Lokela, who contracted Ebola while on vacation in 1976, and the Lewis Baby on London’s Broad Street, the first to catch cholera in an 1854 outbreak that led to a major medical breakthrough. Patient Zero by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen digital book - Fable. Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters include gripping medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV-that combine “Patient Zero” narratives, or the human stories behind outbreaks, with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, and more. CLSC - Patient Zero with Lydia Kang - Chautauqua Institution Welcome to Chautauqua Institution We are a community of artists, educators, thinkers, faith leaders and friends dedicated to exploring the best in humanity. Lydia Kang is an author of young adult fiction, poetry, and narrative non-fiction. From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. ![]()
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