Part I: The case of the No-Name Virus -- Part II: John Snow and the mystery of the blue death -- Part III: The hunt for the 1918 flu -- Part IV: The smallpox hunters -- Part V: HIV/AIDS: a case of medical activism in America -- Part VI: COVID-19 and the vaccine hunters

A propulsive nonfiction look at the elite squads of scientists, doctors, and infectious disease experts who guard the boundary between public health and pandemics and how they gather data via boots on the ground "shoe-leather epidemiology" in order to save lives

Ages 8-12

Grades 4-6