Sherman, Irwin W. <br/><br/>
The power of plagues / 
Irwin W. Sherman 
 - Washington, D.C. :  ASM Press,  2006 
 - ix, 431 p. :  ill., maps ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>The nature of plagues -- Plagues, the price of being sedentary -- Six plagues of antiquity -- An ancient plague, the black death -- A modern plague, AIDS -- Typhus, a fever plague -- Malaria, another fever plague -- King cholera -- Smallpox, the spotted plague -- Preventing plagues -- The plague protectors -- The great pox syphilis -- The people's plague: tuberculosis -- Leprosy, the striking hand of God -- Six plagues of Africa -- Plagues without germs -- Plagues on order 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1555813569 (alk. paper)  RM133.83 9781555813567 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005-031975 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Communicable Disease Control--history<br/>Disease Outbreaks--history
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WC11.1  / .S553p 2006