Pandemics
- ISBN-10
- 0716699389
- ISBN-13
- 9780716699385
- Series
- Pandemics
- Category
- Communicable diseases
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- World Book
Description
"A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history"--
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