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So Very Small by Thomas Levenson

May 01, 202510 hr 11 min
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/57948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So Very Small Author: Thomas Levenson Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins Release date: 05-01-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Science Publisher's Summary: In 1665, an infectious disease swept through the British capital and claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people. It would take another two hundred years for the cause of the Great Plague of London to be confirmed: a powerful bacterium called Yersinia pestis. In those centuries, our understanding of diseases was transformed. In So Very Small, Thomas Levenson reveals how human hubris led us to overestimate our own ability and underestimate the threat that microorganisms truly pose.
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