Review: The Atlas of Disease:Mapping deadly epidemics and contagion from the plague to the zika virus

The Atlas of Disease:Mapping deadly epidemics and contagion from the plague to the zika virus The Atlas of Disease:Mapping deadly epidemics and contagion from the plague to the zika virus by Sandra Hempel
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

*I have received this book from NetGalley, but didn't finish in time, so I purchased it on Amazon*
I'm a fan of various medical stories, the more real they are, the better. Non-fiction accounts of doctors or researchers are the best, but books about diseases are also amazing. This book is great in telling the stories of the various contagious diseases and how they spread, where do they come from and so on. Additional maps help visualize everything. Illustrations of awareness posters and art about given diseases were very interesting, too.
I've learned a few things from this book and I think it's a great book to come back to from time to time, just for a short reminder of basic facts.

(I've added the starting date, when I've started reading the copy from Netgalley, that was sometime in early December. Unfortunately, Kindle app changed the date to the day when I've started reading the bought version. I'll choose a random date as a starting date, it will be more-less accurate)


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