Kingfisher Knowledge: Epidemics & Plagues
No. of pages 64
Published: 2009
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?Epidemics & Plagues explores killer diseases past and present, explaining how they spread rapidly to affect huge numbers of people worldwide. Read the appalling story of the Black Death that swept through medieval Europe, learn about a devastating smallpox epidemic in the Americas and find out about the catastrophic flu that followed the First World War. Peer under the microscope at the agents that cause cholera, tuberculosis, AIDS, malaria and avian flu, and investigate what can be done to stop them.
This book is part of a book series called Kingfisher Knowledge .
There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Pan Macmillan .
Richard Walker is an award-winning science writer and is the author of a wide range of
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