In her new book, Patient Zero: Solving the Mysteries of Deadly Epidemics (Annick), Merilee Peters provides a mesmerizing account of how and exactly where Ebola first arose in Zaire in 1976. Tropical disease experts have traced the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa to a toddler's chance encounter with an infected fruit bat in the village of Meliandoua in remote eastern Guinea.

The Man Who Knew Everything: The Strange Life of Athanasius Kircher (Annick 2017) $14.95 / $19.95 Includes: the Nile, Thames, Ganges, Mississippi and Yangtze. The book explores ten rivers that have shaped history. She hopes the stories of medical sleuthing she shares in Patient Zero inspire kids to learn more about the science of epidemiology.ġ0 Rivers That Shaped The World (Annick $24.95) is for children between the ages of 9 and 12. Her kids and their friends develop fascinations with the most arcane topics - everything from the history of the Salem witch trials to the Beatles' discography. Patient Zero, her first book, helped her to answer a number of nagging questions, including why, when as a child she forgot to cover her mouth while coughing, her mother always told her 'don't be a Typhoid Mary!' With two children of her own, she sees first-hand how thirsty for information kids can be - and how wide-ranging in their interests. She has also worked for the Arts Club Theatre, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and the BC Council for Families-and as a lifeguard, chambermaid and tree planter in northern B.C. Marilee Peters has been living and working in Vancouver since the late 1990s. Jennifer Gardy and toured the BC Centre for Disease Control. John Snow's determination to prove that cholera was spread through contaminated drinking water. As someone who thrives on research, she was pleased to be asked to write Patient Zero: Solving the Mysteries of Deadly Epidemics and discover, in particular, Dr. In addition to working as Communications Officer for the Real Estate Council of BC, she is editor of the BC Organic Grower. She soon became Communications Director at the BC Council for Families, later serving as its Acting Executive Director. She entered the Library Studies program at UBC and graduated as a librarian in 2006 with a MLIS. Raised in Ottawa, Marilee Peters of Vancouver has a Master's degree in English literature, having specialized in Victorian novels.

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