Outbreak!
50 Tales of Epidemics That Terrorized the World
Adams Media · Print & ebook · October 1, 2016
From ancient scourges to modern-day pandemics!
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- Who it’s for
- Fifty outbreaks, from ancient scourges to modern pandemics, make disease history unsettlingly vivid.
- Themes
- Historical epidemics, Pandemics and disease outbreaks, Mystery and devastation of disease
- Genres
- Contagious Diseases, Medical History, Epidemiology
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From ancient scourges to modern-day pandemics! Throughout history--even recent history--highly contagious, deadly, and truly horrible epidemics have swept through cities, countrysides, and even entire countries. Outbreak!
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catalogs fifty of those incidents in gruesome detail, including: - The Sweating Sickness that killed 15,000, including Henry VIII's older brother - Syphilis, the "French Disease," which spread throughout Europe in the late fifteenth century - The romantic disease: tuberculosis, featured in La Boheme, La Traviata, and Les Miserables - The worldwide outbreak of influenza in 1918, which killed 3 percent of the population - The mysterious appearance of HIV in the 1980s - The devastating spread of Ebola in West Africa in 2014 From ancient outbreaks of smallpox and plague to modern epidemics such as SARS and Ebola, the stories capture the mystery and devastation brought on by these diseases. It's a sickeningly fun read that confirms the true definition of going viral.
Epidemics, Up Close
Fifty outbreaks, from ancient scourges to modern pandemics, make disease history unsettlingly vivid.
Come here for
- The mystery and devastation behind epidemics across the centuries
- Gruesome detail, with a distinctly queasy edge
Expect
- Fifty incidents ranging from smallpox and plague to SARS and Ebola
- A history of disease that’s as unsettling as it is absorbing
Where it sits
| Contagious Diseases | 45% |
|---|---|
| Epidemiology | 42% |
| Medical History | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contagious Diseases
- Medicine
- Medical History
- Authors
- Beth Skwarecki
- Publisher
- Adams Media
- Published
- October 1, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Historical epidemics · Pandemics and disease outbreaks · Mystery and devastation of disease
- Reading lane
- Contagious Diseases