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The power of plagues / Irwin W. Sherman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2006.Description: ix, 431 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 1555813569 (alk. paper)
  • 9781555813567 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.4 22
LOC classification:
  • RA643 .S55 2006
NLM classification:
  • WC 11.1
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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.
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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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