Dr. Smith is the author of four books on infectious disease topics. Each discusses the history, basic epidemiology, and pathogenesis of the topic organisms. She also maintains a science blog, Aetiology, and writes on occasion for Slate, Self, The Guardian, Politico, io9, Mental Floss, Quartz, and others on infectious disease topics. A subset of Ebola writings are collected here, but more can be found on the Ebola page. 

Notable articles:
The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics (Quanta)

Ebola was already here (Slate)

What does ‘meat raised without antibiotics’ mean — and why is it important? (Washington Post)
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​America's Ebola panic (Slate)

Are probiotics anything more than hype? (SELF)

How realistic is “The Walking Dead”? Ranking pop culture’s worst zombie outbreaks (Quartz)

An open letter to my dad on the occasion of his recent anti-vax Facebook postings (Aetiology)

Why I vaccinate my kids (Aetiology)

What is the world's most dangerous animal? (Slate's most-read article of 2012)

How politics and an earthquake led to prairie dog plague (Scientific American)

We will always have new epidemics (Slate)

Call the doctor, not the exorcist: monsters who were actually sick (Mental Floss)
No, the Flu Shot Is Not 100 Percent Effective. Yes, You Still Need It (SELF)

Disaster breeds disaster (Slate)

The HPV vaccine is on trial as anti-vaxxers mobilize against effective cancer prevention (NBC News)

The 1872 Equine Influenza Epidemic That Sickened Most U.S. Horses (Mental Floss)

Who Should Get the HPV Vaccine? (SELF)

Nature's bioterrorist agent--just how bad is the new bird flu? (Slate)

Measles is horrible (Slate)
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The persistent danger of poxes (Slate)

Why the United States Is Plagued With Plague (Slate)

Everything you know about Ebola is wrong (mic.com) 

5 Ways a Post-Antibiotic Era Could Change Medicine. Mental Floss, October 2016. 

No, Ebola in Dallas does not mean you and everyone else in the US is going to get it, too (The Guardian.com)

"What caused the Black Plague?" series (Aetiology)

Microbiology of Zombies series (Aetiology)
Books
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Ebola's Message. 2016, MIT Press.
 Reviewed in Nature.  ​
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Ebola and Marburg. 2010.