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Return of the Black Death : the world's greatest serial killer /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, Susan, 1953-
Other Authors: Duncan, C. J. (Christopher John)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2004.
Subjects:
Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral > epidemiology.
Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral > history.
Disease Outbreaks > history.
Plague > epidemiology.
Plague > history.
Table of Contents:
  • Birth of a serial killer
  • The Black Death crosses the channel
  • After the Black Death : the French connection
  • Tentacles of the plague
  • England under siege
  • Portrait of an epidemic
  • The Great Plague of London
  • How bugs and germs operate
  • Building an identikit of the killer
  • Debunking history
  • The biology of bubonic plague : a myth revisited
  • DNA analysis : a red herring
  • The true story of a historic village
  • The surprising link between AIDS and the Black Death
  • Assembling a jigsaw puzzle
  • The Black Death in hiding
  • Why did haemorrhagic plague suddenly disappear?
  • The dangers of emergent diseases
  • The return of the Black Death?
  • Is there something more terrible than the Black Death?