Plague and Pestilence: A History of Infectious Disease
- ISBN-10
- 0894909576
- ISBN-13
- 9780894909573
- Category
- Communicable diseases
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Enslow Pub Incorporated
- Author
- Linda Jacobs Altman
Description
Traces the battles that societies have waged against infectious diseases from the Black Death of the fourteenth century to the Ebola virus of more recent times.
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