![]() ![]() We’d love to hear from you too! Provide your comments and recommendations of books and other resources below. ![]() This post includes a booklist of recently published fiction and non-fiction books as well as links to previously published WOW Currents posts with this focus. Illustrated with 100 archival photographs, Red Madness includes stories about real-life pellagra victims and accounts of scientific investigations. The Executive Board of Worlds of Words came together to determine how we might assist in the effort to find quality literature for young people around epidemics and pandemics. Award-winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow tracks this disease, commonly known as pellagra, and highlights how doctors, scientists, and public health officials finally defeated it. ![]() Schools nation-wide are closed, but they will soon open either on line or face-to-face and teachers will be keen to help young people make sense of current events. Many readers are looking for virtual escape as movement is restricted due to the spread of COVID-19. Jarrow ( The Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician) takes readers on a medical detective journey full of dead ends, twists, politics, and culture as she details the story of pellagra, a. ![]()
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