Table of Contents:
  • The legacy of disease : porphyria and hemophilia
  • The Irish potato blight
  • Cholera
  • Smallpox : the speckled monster
  • Bubonic plague
  • Syphilis : the great pox
  • Tuberculosis : the people's plague
  • Malaria
  • Yellow fever : the saffron scourge
  • The great influenza
  • AIDS : the 21st century plague.