Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study.” —NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and how history prepares us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time. Now with a new preface written in response to COVID-19.Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious d