Twelve diseases that changed our world - Sherman, Irwin W. (Washington, DC : ASM Press, 2007)
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
Keywords: Communicable Disease Control -- history; Communicable Diseases -- history; History, Early Modern 1451-1600