TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chrystal,Paul
TI  - The history of the world in 100 pandemics, plagues and epidemics: from prehistory to COVID-19 
SN  - 9781399005425 (hbk.) :
AV  - RA649 
U1  - 614.49 CHR 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Barnsley, South Yorkshire
PB  - Pen & Sword History
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - History
KW  - Health and Fitness
KW  - eflch
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Epidemiology & medical statistics
KW  - thema
KW  - Clinical & internal medicine
KW  - Diseases & disorders
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This revelatory book charts and explains the impact and consequences of successive pandemics, plagues and epidemics on the course of world history - all through the lens of today's ongoing global experience of COVID-19. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, it first defines what constitutes a pandemic or epidemic then looks at 20 guilty diseases: including cholera, influenza, bubonic plague, leprosy, measles, smallpox, malaria, AIDS, MERS, SARS, Zika, Ebola and, of course, COVID-19
ER  -