Sherman, Irwin W.

The power of plagues / Irwin W. Sherman. - Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2006. - ix, 431 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-419) and index.

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.

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Communicable diseases--History.
Epidemics--History.
Diseases and history.
Communicable Diseases--history.
Communicable Disease Control--history.
Disease Outbreaks--history.

RA643 / .S55 2006

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