Plague and pestilence
Subtitle: a history of infectious disease
By: Linda Jacobs Altman.
Series: Issues in focus; Issues in focus (Hillside, N.J.)
Publisher: Enslow
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Springfield, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Communicable diseases -- Juvenile literature.; Communicable diseases.; Diseases.
Description: Traces the battles that societies have waged against infectious diseases from the Black Death of the fourteenth century to the Ebola virus of more recent times.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-124) and index.