num_pages: 100
description: Describes a variety of epidemics, from bubonic plague to Lyme disease, and discusses ways people have explained them, attempts to treat them, the effects they have had on history, their causes, and how diseases have traveled the world.
language: English
title: Plague and Pestilence: Deadly Diseases That Changed the World
titlecomplete: Plague and Pestilence: Deadly Diseases That Changed the World (True Stories)
publisher: Allen & Unwin