Biology of Plagues
Subtitle: Evidence from Historical Populations
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780521017763
Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; Science; Science/Mathematics; Epidemiology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Epidemics; Epidemics Epidemics; Medical-Epidemiology; Science / Biology
First sentence: We first became interested in plagues when studying the demography of northwest England (Duncan et al., 1992; Scott &amp; Duncan, 1998), where an epidemic in the town of Penrith in 1597-98 killed some 40% of the population and initiated endogenous oscillations in the annual numbers of births and deaths.