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Carnival of Contagion Cover
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Carnival of Contagion by Bob Hall, John West, and Judy Diamond with an accompanying essay by Carl Zimmer is a unique experience to read Depicting a fever dream of unvaccinated teens, the book anthropomorphizes the measles virus as an end-rhyme-speaking, dragon-riding carnival barker, with their only aid as Dr Peter Panum and his Mary Poppins umbrella[...]