This book is part of a book series called Kingfisher Knowledge .
There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Pan Macmillan .
Denise Grady has been a science reporter for The New York Times since 1998. In that time she has written more than 500 articles about medicine and biology. In 1998, she covered the Hantavirus outbreak in New Mexico, and she recently travelled to Angola to report on an outbreak of Marburg virus there. She lives in Westchester, New York, USA. Richard Walker is an award-winning science writer and is the author of a wide range of
This book has the following chapters: 1 HALF TITLE; 2-3 TITLE; 4-5 IMPRINT & CONTENTS; 6 FOREWORD; 7 CHAPTER ONE: Death and disease; 8-9 First epidemics; 10-11 Powerful pathogens; 12-13 Person to person; 14-15 Defence force; 16-17 Disease detectives; 18-19 Childhood scourges; 20-21 Bad eating; 22-23 Famine and blight; 24 Summary and information panel; 25 CHAPTER TWO: Plagues and pestilence; 26-27 The Black Death; 28-29 Medieval sickness; 30-31 The great pox; 32-33 Vulnerable to attack; 34-35 Plague in London; 36 Summary and information panel; 37 CHAPTER THREE: Old and new; 38-39 White death; 40-41 Pandemic cholera; 42-43 Public health; 44-45 Endemic diseases; 46-47 Colds and flu; 48-49 Fatal flu; 50-51 Beating smallpox; 52-53 Germ warfare; 54-55 HIV and AIDS; 56-57 Future epidemics; 58 Summary and information panel; 59-61 Glossary; 62-63 Index; 64 Acknowledgements.
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