TY - BOOK AU - Sherman,Irwin W. TI - Twelve diseases that changed our world SN - 9781555814663 (pbk. : alk. paper) PY - 2007/// CY - Washington, DC PB - ASM Press KW - Communicable Disease Control KW - history KW - Communicable Diseases KW - History, Early Modern 1451-1600 N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0720/2007023680.html ER -