Brooks, the author, takes a cynical view of politics in general, imagining a scenario of catastrophic outbreak and how ineffectual the government's response would be. He also describes the general apathy we have towards impending disasters. People will generally try to downplay the seriousness of t...

The format of this book is very similar to the format of an Infectious Disease Management class that I took last year. Each week we were presented with a new portion of a case study that held clues to the etiology of the outbreak. Of course for my class it was not the living dead, it was just a fair...

Hello, I am Jennifer and I live in upstate NY. Since I was a child I have always loved to read, but with two small children and night classes I have found little time to sit and enjoy a good book. I finished my degree in Health Science this past February so my evenings are now free. I spent the past...