Plagues & poxes : the impact of human history on epidemic disease /

Plagues & poxes : the impact of human history on epidemic disease /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bollet, Alfred J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Demos, [2004]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Disease Outbreaks > history.
Communicable Diseases > history.
Epidemiology > history.
Table of Contents:
  • Bubonic plague : the prototype of pandemic disasters
  • The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague
  • The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever
  • Syphilis: the great pox
  • The small pox
  • Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century
  • The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 : President Woodrow Wilson and the Blitzkatarrh
  • Poliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult?
  • Beriberi : an epidemic affecting rice-eaters
  • The pellagra epidemics : the three M's produce the four D's
  • Scurvy : the purpura nautica
  • Rickets : the English disease
  • Gout : the disease of good living
  • Anthrax : from woolsorter's disease to terrorism
  • Botulism : from bad food to terrorism
  • The SARS epidemic : a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases