The Plague Cycle The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease [Audiobook] [#216690]

Charles Kenny, Jacques Roy (Narrator), "The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease"
English | ASIN: B08CL4WLWF | 2021 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:05:00 | 201 MB
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind's battles with infectious disease, for listeners of the number-one New York Times best sellers Yuval Harari's Sapiens and John Barry's The Great Influenza.
For 4,000 years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since common response to the threat was exclusion - quarantining the sick or keeping them out. But the unprecedented hygiene and medical revolutions of the past two centuries have allowed humanity to free itself from the hold of epidemic cycles - resulting in an urbanized, globalized, and unimaginably wealthy world.