The Hidden Zoo Inside You
This illustrated guide provides the foundations of infectious disease required to understand pandemics. Hand-drawn and printed by the author, it presents a vast amount of information in plain language aided by simple illustrations, breaking down complicated topics into humorous, bite-sized chunks. Diseases include Plague, Smallpox, Influenza, COVID, and many others. It assumes the reader has no science background and is aimed at those ages 12 to 99, but will also appeal to health professionals.
"The Hidden Zoo Inside You is Allen Jones’s fascinating, funny illustrated guide to microscopic organisms and the problems they can create. … Stuffed with an incredible amount of information, every page is enlightening."
- Foreword Reviews
"An expansive and informative epidemiological look at viruses."
- Kirkus Reviews
"It’s rare for a book about infections to appeal equally to the lay public as well as healthcare professionals."
- BC Bookworld
"The Hidden Zoo is an unusual book: imagine a graphic novel like Maus meeting Gray’s Anatomy. …This is an example of what effective public health education should look like, and too rarely does. … Highly recommended."
- Vancouver Sun