The second edition of Infectious Diseases: A Very Short Introductionby Dean Marta L. Wayne and Benjamin M. Bolker, Professor in the Departments of Mathematics & Statistics and of Biology at McMaster University was translated into Arabic, Chinese (simplified), Japanese, and Thai.

This edition includes COVID among other changes.

Published by Oxford University Press, the Very Short Introductions (VSIs) cover a very wide range of subjects. Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects - from Public Health to Buddhist Ethics, Soft Matter to Classics, and Art History to Globalization. Each volume provides an authoritative and engaging assessment of a concept, field, or body of work, drawing out the central ideas, themes, and approaches.