The pandemic century a history of global contagion from the Spanish flu to Covid-19

The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical...

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Main Author: Honigsbaum, Mark (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London WH Allen, an imprint of Ebury Publishing [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • The blue death
  • Plague in the City of Angels
  • The great parrot fever pandemic
  • The "philly killer"
  • Legionnaires' redux
  • AIDS in America, AIDS in Africa
  • SARS: "super spreader"
  • Ebola at the borders
  • Z is for Zika
  • Disease X