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West Toledo Book Club

Patient Zero by Lydia Kang and Nate Pederson

2024-09-05 14:00:00 2024-09-05 15:00:00 America/New_York West Toledo Book Club Good conversation, friendly faces and great books - that's what book group is all about. We're looking forward to seeing you at our lively and engaging book discussion. West Toledo - Meeting Room A (Capacity : 32)

Thursday, September 05
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-09-05 14:00:00 2024-09-05 15:00:00 America/New_York West Toledo Book Club Good conversation, friendly faces and great books - that's what book group is all about. We're looking forward to seeing you at our lively and engaging book discussion. West Toledo - Meeting Room A (Capacity : 32)

West Toledo

Meeting Room A (Capacity : 32)

Good conversation, friendly faces and great books - that's what book group is all about. We're looking forward to seeing you at our lively and engaging book discussion.

Patient Zero by Lydia Kang and Nate Pederson

Print

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. Written in the authors' lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning 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. 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. 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. Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more.

AGE GROUP: | Adults (18+) |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Groups |

TAGS: | branchbookgroup |

West Toledo

Phone: 419.259.5290

Hours
Mon, Jan 13 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Tue, Jan 14 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Wed, Jan 15 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Thu, Jan 16 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Fri, Jan 17 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Sat, Jan 18 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Sun, Jan 19 Closed

About the branch
  • 48 Internet computers (including 4 MACs)
  • 4 children's computers
  • Free WiFi
  • 2 meeting rooms that hold 32- and 250-capacity, respectively
  • Faxing, copying, scanning
  • Making equipment
  • 50 parking spots/2 additional handicapped accessible
  • 6 bicycle spots

Upcoming events

Wed, Jan 15, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Auditorium

Tue, Jan 21, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Meeting Room A (Capacity : 32)

Wed, Jan 22, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Wed, Jan 22, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Making Creation Studio

Sat, Jan 25, 10:00am - 11:00am
Auditorium

Mon, Jan 27, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Tue, Jan 28, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Wed, Jan 29, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room A (Capacity : 32)

Wed, Feb 05, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Wed, Feb 05, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Meeting Room A (Capacity : 32)

Thu, Feb 06, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Auditorium,Meeting Room A (Capacity : 32)

Sat, Feb 08, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Conference Room

Sat, Feb 08, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Auditorium

Mon, Feb 10, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Tue, Feb 11, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Wed, Feb 12, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room A (Capacity : 32)