The power of plagues. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Irwin W. Sherman.
• Authors: Sherman, Irwin W
• Contents: The nature of plagues -- Plagues, the price of being sedentary -- Six plagues of antiquity -- An ancient plague, the black death -- A 21st century plague, AIDS -- Typhus, a fever plague -- Malaria, another fever plague -- King cholera -- Smallpox, the spotted plague -- Preventing plagues: immunization -- The plague protectors: antisepsis to antibiotics -- The great pox syphilis -- The people's plague: tuberculosis -- Leprosy, the striking hand of God -- Six plagues of Africa -- Emerging and re-emerging plagues.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Washington, DC : ASM Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 494 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 616.9; Communicable diseases -- History; Epidemics -- History; Diseases and history; Communicable Diseases -- history; Communicable Disease Control -- history; Disease Outbreaks -- history; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Microbiology; SCIENCE -- History; Communicable diseases; Diseases and history; Epidemics; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781683673088; 1683673085; 9781683670018; 1683670019; 9781683670865; 1683670868
• Related ISBNs: 9781683670001; 1683670000
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.