A review by shanaqui
Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present, and Future by Michael B. a. Oldstone

informative slow-paced

2.0

Not much new for me here, but at times it broke into surprising levels of technical detail (like the specific receptors used by particular strains of influenza in order to enter cells). I don't know if I'd recommend it: it's quite dry, and yet the technical details I craved were few and far between. It leans more toward descriptive history.

I feel like it needed a more thorough rewrite given the current pandemic, because that dated it very fast.