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Play It Forward Episode 358 with Dr Lydia Kang Patient Zero

Published: Jan. 4, 2022, 10 p.m.

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 358 with Dr. Lydia Kang author of Patient Zero.
Written by Dr. Lydia Kang, MD, a practicing internal medicine physician, and Nate Pedersen, a librarian and historian, PATIENT ZERO: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases [Workman Publishing; November 9, 2021] explores the science and stories behind thirty of the world's worst illnesses, pulling back the curtain on everything from HIV, often falsely considered to have first appeared in the 1980s, to the groundbreaking creation of the first vaccine in the 1790s, to the link between tuberculous and belief in vampires. Seamlessly combining “Patient Zero” narratives that reveal the human stories behind outbreaks with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, other captivating insights