epidemics

During a scarlet fever outbreak in 1906, thirteen-year-old Lizabeth must decide whether it is more important to be Strawberry Queen or to be at the bedside of her younger sister, who is ill.

Explores the interactions between humans and disease-causing microorganisms. Looks at the struggles of medical detectives to uncover the roots of epidemics, and traces the spread of pathogenic resistance.

Examines the culture of fear, focusing on how the government, the media, and drug makers have created a society living in fear of illness, attack, and government regulation, and recounting some of the most sensational false alarms of the past few years.

In 1793 Philadephia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated for her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.

Presents a biologist's views on how and why disturbances of the ecological balance, such as have occurred with the destruction of rainforests and extinction of various species of plant and animal life, can give rise to plagues.

Anaximander, a student historian applying for entrance to the Academy, the institution that governs the Republic, a closed and isolated island society established late in the twenty-first century as a refuge from worldwide plague, prepares a thesis on Adam Forde, a rebel who on one occasion refused to shoot a young woman approaching the island in a boat, and unwittingly reveals her own tendencies for unconventional thought.

After Lyza's mother dies of influenza in 1918, she must protect her eccentric father, who runs the risk of being committed due to his claim that he is waiting for the return of his dead wife, and find her own path in the process.

Friends Tricia Levine, Carlos Marcos, and Tommy Gersky discover that cooties really do exist when an outbreak takes over their school and the trio must find a way to avoid the infected mob and stop the cooties' spread before they turn the entire school into zombies.

Discusses the history of polio, the development of the polio vaccine, and its present-day occurrences elsewhere around the world.