From infectious diseases to fake news, The Rules Of Contagion examines how things spread
“If you’ve seen one pandemic,” epidemiologists like to joke, “you’ve seen... one pandemic.” Influenza strains and common colds differ year to year. The H1N1, or swine flu, pandemic of 2009 does not perfectly parallel the H2N2 pandemic of a half-century earlier. HIV/AIDS does not correlate with the gonorrhea outbreaks…