The pandemic century : one hundred years of panic, hysteria, and hubris / Mark Honigsbaum.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: 450 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
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- 9780393254754
- 0393254755
- RA650.5 H665 2019
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-419) and index.
Sharks and other predators -- 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 -- Epilogue: The pandemic century.
Chronicles the last century of scientific struggle against deadly contagious disease--from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic to the recent SARS, Ebola and Zika epidemics--examining related epidemiological mysteries and the role of disease in exacerbating world conflicts.