| Publication |
London, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2006.
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| Description |
64pBlack and Green Spine
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| Series |
Kingfisher Knowledge
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| Summary/Abstract |
Explore the killer diseases of the world past and present, explaining how they spread rapidly to affect huge numbers of people at a time.
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| Contents |
Chapeter one: Death and disease
First epidemics
Body defences
Disease detectives
Childhood diseases
Bad eating
Famine and blight
Summary
Chapter two: Plagues and pestilence
The Black Death
Medieval sickness
The Great Pox
Vulnerable to attack
Plague in London
Summary
Chapter three: 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
Glossary
Index
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| Standard Number |
0753413760 Hb.
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