Book description
Where did the Black Death originate? How many kinds of plague were there? How widespread was polio? This factual, yet fascinating, volume answers these questions and many more in a clear, readable form. Although it is a reference book, it may be read as a history and geography of world diseases.
This is the first and most comprehensive reference book available on the subject, and the detailed entries give concise descriptions of nearly 700 epidemics, together with when and where a particular epidemic began, how and why it happened, who it affected, how it spread and ran its course, and its outcome and significance.
