Sherman, Irwin W.

Twelve diseases that changed our world / Irwin W. Sherman - Washington, DC : ASM Press, 2007 - ix, 219 p. ; 23 cm.

The legacy of disease : porphyria and hemophilia -- The Irish potato blight -- Cholera -- Smallpox : the speckled monster -- Bubonic plague -- Syphilis : the great pox -- Tuberculosis : the people's plague -- Malaria -- Yellow fever : the saffron scourge -- The great influenza -- AIDS : the 21st century plague

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Communicable Disease Control--history
Communicable Diseases--history
History, Early Modern 1451-1600

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