?Epidemics & Plagues explores killer diseases past and present, explaining how they spread rapidly to affect huge numbers of people worldwide. Read the appalling story of the Black Death that swept through medieval Europe, learn about a devastating smallpox epidemic in the Americas and find out about the catastrophic flu that followed the First World War. Peer under the microscope at the agents that cause cholera, tuberculosis, AIDS, malaria and avian flu, and investigate what can be done to stop them.
- ISBN10 0753413957
- ISBN13 9780753413951
- Publish Date 2 November 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 January 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Kingfisher Books Ltd
- Edition Unabridged edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English