I find all of these cases super sad because although we have found cures for some of these diseases, the truth is that tons of people still died for that to happen. However, my absolute main gripe with Patient Zero were the drawings that were in the book. Instead we just have vague snippets of epidemics as opposed to semi-full case files of diseases. I think had this been written by someone who A.) actually had a medical degree of some sort or B.) had a history with y'know history than this book would have been more insightful and more deep. There are no new insights, no new opinions. I felt like I could have learned all of this from Wikipedia and still not have missed anything. I also felt like the information given in Patient Zero was very surface-level.
The only part that wasn't boring was the Typhoid Mary case, but I think that has more to do with the fact that Typhoid Mary was endlessly interesting as opposed to the book itself being interesting.
Despite the fact that it was written in a breezy, matter of fact way, this book ended up being incredibly dry. Seriously, how do you make a book about deadly epidemics boring?! I have no idea, but this book was immensely boring. And that was one of the reasons I didn't really like Patient Zero. No, but seriously, I really do need to be more picky because the ones that only sound mildly interesting.are starting to be not even that.
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