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Outbreak!: 50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World - Softcover

Skwarecki, Beth

 
9781440596278: Outbreak!: 50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1440596271 ISBN 13: 9781440596278
Verlag: Adams Media, 2016

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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! 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.

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Beth Skwarecki is the health editor at LifeHacker.com. She also runs their health vertical, Vitals. She has previously worked as a freelance health and science writer and her work has been featured on Medscape, Performance Menu, Public Health Perspectives, Bitch magazine, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Science, and Scientific American. She is the author of Outbreak! 50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World and Genetics 101.  

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Verlag
Adams Media
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1440596271
ISBN 13 
9781440596278
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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