TY  - BOOK
AU  - Honigsbaum,Mark
TI  - The pandemic century: one hundred years of panic, hysteria, and hubris 
SN  - 9780393254754
AV  - RA650.5 H665 2019
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Communicable diseases
KW  - Pandemics
KW  - history
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - History, 21st Century
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -