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Plagues & poxes the impact of human history on epidemic disease

Alfred J. Bollet

Localização: FSP - Faculdade de Saúde Pública (614.49 63 2. ed. )(Acessar)

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Plagues & poxes the impact of human history on epidemic disease
Autor: Alfred J. Bollet
Assuntos: Epidemiology -- History; SURTOS DE DOENÇAS (HISTÓRIA); DOENÇAS TRANSMISSÍVEIS (HISTÓRIA); Disease Outbreaks -- history; Communicable Diseases -- history; Epidemiology -- history
Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index
Descrição: Bubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever -- Syphilis: the great pox -- The smallpox -- Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century -- The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the Blitzkatarrh Poliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult? -- Beriberi: an epidemic affecting rice-eaters -- The pellagra epidemics: the three M's produce the four D's -- Scurvy: the purpura nautica -- Dying for a cigar? how about a cigarette?: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince -- Rickets: the English disease -- Gout: the disease of good living -- Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism -- Botulism: from bad food to terrorism -- The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases
Editor: New York Demos
Data de criação/publicação: c2004
Formato: xii, 237 p. ill. 23 cm.
Idioma: Inglês

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