Outbreak! : : 50 Tales of Epidemics That Terrorized the World

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Call Number: 614.4 Sk
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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World takeover: malaria -- The fiery serpent: Guinea worm -- The plague of Athens: unknown disease -- Galen's plague: smallpox -- The plague of Justinian: bubonic plague -- A vicious cycle: smallpox -- Message from a sacred mountain: smallpox -- Saint Anthony's fire: ergotism -- A doomed crusade: scurvy -- The knights of Lazarus: leprosy (Hansen's disease) -- China's plague: bubonic plague -- The black death: bubonic plague -- The sweating sickness: unknown disease -- The first invaders: influenza -- The French disease: syphilis -- The dancing plague: mass psychogenic illness -- The fall of Moctezuma: smallpox -- The lost cure for scurvy: scurvy -- The king's evil: scrofula -- Squanto's backstory: unknown disease -- The first miracle cure: malaria -- The great plague of London: bubonic plague -- Scourge of a young nation's capital: yellow fever -- Peeing red: schistosomiasis -- The romantic disease: tuberculosis -- The Haitian revolution: yellow fever -- Birth of a pandemic: cholera -- Childbed fever: uterine infection -- Mapping death: cholera -- Exiled on Molokai: leprosy (Hansen's disease) -- Beat of the death-drum: measles -- Tunnel of anemia: hookworm -- Rabies loses its bite: rabies -- The Beriberi box: beriberi -- The Chinatown plague: bubonic plague -- Down by the riverside: sleeping sickness -- Typhoid Mary and friends: typhoid fever -- An unpopular discovery: pellagra -- The "Spanish" flu: influenza -- Serum by dogsled: diphtheria -- Just another horror: typhus -- The beginning of the end for polio: polio -- Breakbone fever: Dengue hemorrhagic fever -- The brain-eating amoeba: primary amebic meningoencephalitis -- The leak from compound 19: anthrax -- AIDS panic and progress: AIDS -- Mad cow spreads to humans: transmissible spongiform encephalopathy -- The locker room menace: MRSA -- The secret epidemic: SARS -- Ebola is real: ebola.
"Describes 50 outbreaks of disease throughout history. Also explains how and why these diseases spread and how humans tried to stop them"-- Provided by publisher.

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