Plagues & poxes: the impact of human history on epidemic disease
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1. Verfasser: Bollet, Alfred J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Demos ©2004
Ausgabe:2nd ed
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Bubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever -- Syphilis: the great pox -- The smallpox -- Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century -- The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the Blitzkatarrh
Poliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult? -- Beriberi: an epidemic affecting rice-eaters -- The pellagra epidemics: the three M's produce the four D's -- Scurvy: the purpura nautica -- Dying for a cigar? how about a cigarette?: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince -- Rickets: the English disease -- Gout: the disease of good living -- Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism -- Botulism: from bad food to terrorism -- The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 237 pages)
ISBN:1417590653
9781417590650

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