Rashes, chills, nausea, fevers, dizziness, swellings, fainting, bleeding, seizures, blindness, shock, coma, death. In light of the anxiety caused by the outbreaks of Ebola and swine flu, the book "Epidemics" puts things into the right perspective.
This book is a concise and thrilling journey through the 50 most aggressive and worst scourges, pandemics, and infectious diseases that medical science has known to date. It is your guide to the diseases of the past and present, with some warnings for the future.
From the origin and symptoms to the survival rate, everything you need to know about dangerous viruses and harmful bacteria is here. Warning for chronic hypochondriacs: This book may cause severe insomnia.
With this practical booklet, medical journalist Dr. Peter Moore pokes at our obsession with infectious danger. Displaying almost otherworldly forensic precision, he follows diseases from their first symptoms to the end. He also offers terrifying estimates of the potential threat to civilization posed by each disease.
