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Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Oldstone presents a vivid history of a fascinating field, focusing on the most famous viruses humanity has battled: smallpox, polio, measles, yellow fever, and
Language: en
Pages: 810
Pages: 810
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-01 - Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Pandemics can come in waves—like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues h
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-16 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, i