The power of plagues /

The power of plagues /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sherman, Irwin W.
Corporate Author: American Society for Microbiology
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Communicable diseases > History.
Epidemics > History.
Diseases and history.
Communicable Diseases > history.
Communicable Disease Control > history.
Disease Outbreaks > history.
Table of Contents:
  • The nature of plagues
  • Plagues, the price of being sedentary
  • Six plagues of antiquity
  • An ancient plague, the Black Death
  • A modern plague, AIDS
  • Typhus, a fever plague
  • Malaria, another fever plague
  • King Cholera
  • Smallpox, the spotted plague
  • Preventing plagues
  • The plague protectors
  • The great pox syphilis
  • The people's plague: tuberculosis
  • Leprosy, the striking hand of God
  • Six plagues of Africa
  • Plagues without germs
  • Plagues on order