Viruses, Plagues, and History PDF book is popular Medical book written by Michael B. A. Oldstone. The book was released by Oxford University Press, USA on 2020 with total hardcover pages 513. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Viruses, Plagues, and History by Michael B. A. Oldstone in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
"Here, my previous edition of Viruses, Plagues, & History is updated to reflect both progress and disappointment since that publication. This edition describes
Oldstone presents a vivid history of a fascinating field, focusing on the most famous viruses humanity has battled: smallpox, polio, measles, yellow fever, and
Pandemics can come in waves—like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues h
More people were killed by smallpox during the twentieth century--over 300 million--than by all of the wars of that period combined. In 1918 and 1919, influenza
Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, i
