Epidemics and society
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1) AIDS
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Pub. Date
2011
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This book describes the epidemic of HIV/AIDS that appeared in the early 1980s, how the HIV virus has the ability to mutate, and how there is no known cure for HIV/AIDS.
2) Cholera
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Pub. Date
2011
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This book explores the history of cholera, a disease often caused by drinking polluted water, the steps taken to cure its victims, and how cholera epidemics have shaped society.
3) Ebola
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Pub. Date
2011
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This book describes the Ebola epidemic in Zaire in 1976 and how the Ebola virus has been contained except for the 1989 outbreak in Uganda.
4) The plague
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Pub. Date
2011
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This book describes the plague that killed the people of Europe in the fourteenth century, explains three types of plague, and discusses how the plague killed twenty-five million people and how the strict divisions of class began to blur.
5) Polio
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[2011]
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This book tells about the devastating polio epidemic which gripped the world until a combination of scientific experimentation, breakthrough discoveries, courageous study participants and a global mobilization to vaccinate young children conquered the disease.
6) Smallpox
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2011
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This book tells how smallpox, a disease that may have killed as many as half a billion people in the twentieth century before being eradicated, changed the course of civilization.
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