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Great American diseases : their effects on the course of North American history /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tizard, Ian R. (Author), Musser, Jeffrey M. B., 1957- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Elsevier/Academic Press, [2026]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Epidemics > North America > History.
Medicine > North America > History.
Epidemics > history.
North America.
Table of Contents:
  • Infectious diseases and their causes
  • Immunity and recovery from infectious diseases
  • Modern American vaccines
  • Diseases among the first inhabitants
  • Syphilis and the Columbian exchange-- Tuberculosis : another ancient disease
  • Malaria : 1492
  • Smallpox : 1518
  • Measles : 1537
  • Typhoid and typhus : 1607
  • Yellow fever : 1647
  • Cholera : 1832
  • Poliomyelitis : 1841
  • The Civil War : 1861-1864
  • Plague and San Francisco : 1900
  • Influenza : 1918
  • Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome : 1981
  • Zoonotic diseases : rabies as a link between humans and veterinary medicine
  • COVID 19 : 2020.