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About The Book
From ancient scourges to modern-day pandemics!
Throughout history--even recent history--highly contagious, deadly, and truly horrible epidemics have swept through cities, countrysides, and even entire countries. Outbreak! catalogs fifty of those incidents in gruesome detail, including:
Throughout history--even recent history--highly contagious, deadly, and truly horrible epidemics have swept through cities, countrysides, and even entire countries. Outbreak! catalogs fifty of those incidents in gruesome detail, including:
- The Sweating Sickness that killed 15,000, including Henry VIII's older brother
- Syphilis, the "French Disease," which spread throughout Europe in the late fifteenth century
- The romantic disease: tuberculosis, featured in La Boheme, La Traviata, and Les Miserables
- The worldwide outbreak of influenza in 1918, which killed 3 percent of the population
- The mysterious appearance of HIV in the 1980s
- The devastating spread of Ebola in West Africa in 2014
Product Details
- Publisher: Adams Media (October 1, 2016)
- Length: 256 pages
- ISBN13: 9781440596278
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"Let's be honest: epidemics are terrifying. In Outbreak! Beth Skwarecki surveys some of the most important historically. Skwarecki does not skimp on the details and therein is real life horror." --Cool Hunting
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