Bibliograph

Outbreak!, 50 tales of epidemics that terrorized the world, Beth Skwarecki

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Outbreak!, 50 tales of epidemics that terrorized the world, Beth Skwarecki

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Outbreak!

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

945029491

Responsibility statement

Beth Skwarecki

Sub title

50 tales of epidemics that terrorized the world

Summary

"Describes 50 outbreaks of disease throughout history. Also explains how and why these diseases spread and how humans tried to stop them"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

World takeover: malaria -- The fiery serpent: Guinea worm -- The plague of Athens: unknown disease -- Galen's plague: smallpox -- The plague of Justinian: bubonic plague -- A vicious cycle: smallpox -- Message from a sacred mountain: smallpox -- Saint Anthony's fire: ergotism -- A doomed crusade: scurvy -- The knights of Lazarus: leprosy (Hansen's disease) -- China's plague: bubonic plague -- The black death: bubonic plague -- The sweating sickness: unknown disease -- The first invaders: influenza -- The French disease: syphilis -- The dancing plague: mass psychogenic illness -- The fall of Moctezuma: smallpox -- The lost cure for scurvy: scurvy -- The king's evil: scrofula -- Squanto's backstory: unknown disease -- The first miracle cure: malaria -- The great plague of London: bubonic plague -- Scourge of a young nation's capital: yellow fever -- Peeing red: schistosomiasis -- The romantic disease: tuberculosis -- The Haitian revolution: yellow fever -- Birth of a pandemic: cholera -- Childbed fever: uterine infection -- Mapping death: cholera -- Exiled on Molokai: leprosy (Hansen's disease) -- Beat of the death-drum: measles -- Tunnel of anemia: hookworm -- Rabies loses its bite: rabies -- The Beriberi box: beriberi -- The Chinatown plague: bubonic plague -- Down by the riverside: sleeping sickness -- Typhoid Mary and friends: typhoid fever -- An unpopular discovery: pellagra -- The "Spanish" flu: influenza -- Serum by dogsled: diphtheria -- Just another horror: typhus -- The beginning of the end for polio: polio -- Breakbone fever: Dengue hemorrhagic fever -- The brain-eating amoeba: primary amebic meningoencephalitis -- The leak from compound 19: anthrax -- AIDS panic and progress: AIDS -- Mad cow spreads to humans: transmissible spongiform encephalopathy -- The locker room menace: MRSA -- The secret epidemic: SARS -- Ebola is real: ebola

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