(Part 2) Top products from r/epidemiology
We found 3 product mentions on r/epidemiology. We ranked the 23 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
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You should do a monthly PH book club too. There are lots of public health related books that are also very interesting and entertaining. I would recommend starting with The Barbary Plague by Marilyn Chase. The plot revolves around the epidemiologists trying to deal with the Plague outbreak of turn of the century San Fransisco. Remember that for these folks, the field of epidemiology was very new. They still admired Kochs lab since there was no direct equivalent anywhere in the USA. A large portion of the book is about Joseph Kinyoun, the physician and epidemiologist who went on to found the United States' Hygienic Laboratory. Ever heard of it? Today is called the National Institutes of Health.
There was a fantastically terrifying bit where they were looking for evidence of plague among animals in the park and ended up stumbling upon a squirrel that had obviously died of plague. After a few seconds of examination, they realized they were absolutely covered in fleas... too many to possibly shake off, moments later, little specks of blood started to appear...
[spoilers] By amazing luck, the fleas were all very young instars that had hatched after the squirrel had died. Since the squirrel was cold when they were born, they never tried to feed on it. The fleas were waiting on the squirrel for another host to come by, but they had never been infected themselves. There is evidence of vertical transmission of other pathogens in such fleas, but thankfully not plague.
Workbook of Epidemiology (Norrell): https://www.amazon.com/Workbook-Epidemiology-Staffan-Norell/dp/0195074912/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518227129&sr=1-1&keywords=workbook+for+epidemiology
Interpreting Epidemiologic Evidence (Savitz): https://www.amazon.com/Interpreting-Epidemiologic-Evidence-Strategies-Analysis/dp/019510840X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518227195&sr=1-2&keywords=interpreting+epidemiologic+evidence
Epidemiology, 5th Edition (Gordis): https://www.amazon.com/Epidemiology-STUDENT-CONSULT-Online-Access/dp/145573733X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518227238&sr=1-1&keywords=epidemiology+5th+edition+by+leon+gordis
Beyond The Basics, 3rd Edition (Szklo & Nieto): https://www.amazon.com/Epidemiology-Beyond-Basics-Moyses-Szklo/dp/1449604692/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518227273&sr=1-2&keywords=szklo+m.+and+nieto+j.+epidemiology+beyond+the+basics&dpID=515BdoQV9QL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch