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Other Title: Epidemics and plagues

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Table of contents includes: Death and disease: First epidemics -- Powerful pathogens -- Person to person -- Body defences -- Disease detectives -- Childhood diseases -- Bad eating -- Famine and blight -- Plagues and pestilence: The Black Death -- Medieval sickness -- The great pox -- Vulnerable to attack -- Plague in London -- Old and new: White death -- Pandemic cholera -- Public health -- Endemic diseases -- Colds and flu -- Fatal flu -- Beating smallpox -- Germ warfare -- HIV and AIDS -- Future epidemics

Summary: Provides information about major epidemics and plagues of past eras and furnishes some information about current and potential infectious threats. Looks at recent medical and scientific advances, including the surveillance, control, prevention, and treatment of infectious diseases