Title: American plagues
Description: Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio... now largely just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons. As we struggle to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease, and Ebola infection, Gehlbach shows how encounters with epidemics in the past will aid our present understanding of health and disease.
Subjects: Epidemics, History, Communicable diseases, Epidemiology, Disease Outbreaks, Communicable Disease Control
Places: United States