So Very Small : How humans discovered germs, uncovered infectious diseases, and deluded themselves that we had conquered them by Thomas Levenson

So Very Small : How humans discovered germs, uncovered infectious diseases, and deluded themselves that we had conquered them by Thomas LevensonIn 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

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