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Murderous Contagion

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Murderous Contagion

By Mary Dobson

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About the book

Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters combined. Murderous Contagion tells the compelling and at times unbearably moving story of the devastating impact of diseases on humankind - from the Black Death of the 14th century to the Spanish flu of 1918-19 and the AIDS epidemic of the modern era....Show more

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9781782069430

Publisher

Quercus Publishing

Published year

2014

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1

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Murderous Contagion

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Paperback

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