Screen LibraryThe power of plagues /
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| Published: |
ASM Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Washington, DC : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 494 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 466-484) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781683670001 (paperback) : 1683670000 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | RA643 |
| CLC: | R51-09 |
| Call Number: | R51-09/S553/2nd ed. |
| Contents: | The nature of plagues -- Plagues, the price of being sedentary -- Six plagues of antiquity -- An ancient plague, the black death -- A 21st century plague, AIDS -- Typhus, a fever plague -- Malaria, another fever plague -- King cholera -- Smallpox, the spotted plague -- Preventing plagues: immunization -- The plague protectors: antisepsis to antibiotics -- The great pox syphilis -- The people's plague: tuberculosis -- Leprosy, the striking hand of God -- Six plagues of Africa -- Emerging and re-emerging plagues. |