Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sherman, Irwin W.,

Titel

The power of plagues

Auflage

Second edition

Ort / Verlag

Washington, District of Columbia : ASM Press,

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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.
• Description based on print version record.