Plagues & poxes : the impact of human history on epidemic disease / / Alfred Jay Bollet.

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Year of Publication:2004
Edition:2nd ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 237 p. :; ill.
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246 3 |a Plagues and poxes 
250 |a 2nd ed. 
260 |a New York :  |b Demos,  |c c2004. 
300 |a xii, 237 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Bubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever -- Syphilis: the great pox -- The smallpox -- Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century -- The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the Blitzkatarrh 
505 0 |a Poliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult? -- Beriberi: an epidemic affecting rice-eaters -- The pellagra epidemics: the three M's produce the four D's -- Scurvy: the purpura nautica -- Dying for a cigar? how about a cigarette?: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince -- Rickets: the English disease -- Gout: the disease of good living -- Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism -- Botulism: from bad food to terrorism -- The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
650 0 |a Epidemiology  |x History. 
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