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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, Sep 09 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Tue, Sep 10 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Wed, Sep 11 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Thu, Sep 12 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Fri, Sep 13 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Sat, Sep 14 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Sun, Sep 15 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

Mon, Sep 16, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Cancelled
Tue, Sep 17, 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Tue, Sep 17, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Meeting Room A (Capacity : 32)

Wed, Sep 18, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Auditorium
Please contact the library to register for this event.

Wed, Sep 18, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Wed, Sep 18, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Meeting Room A (Capacity : 32)

Mon, Sep 23, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Tue, Sep 24, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Tue, Sep 24, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Auditorium

Wed, Sep 25, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Auditorium
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Wed, Sep 25, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Mon, Sep 30, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Mon, Sep 30, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium
This event is full

Tue, Oct 01, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Wed, Oct 02, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Auditorium
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Wed, Oct 02, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Thu, Oct 03, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Meeting Room A (Capacity : 32)

Mon, Oct 07, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Tue, Oct 08, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium

Wed, Oct 09, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Auditorium
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Wed, Oct 09, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Auditorium