epidemics

In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes and epidemics, sixteen-year-old Lucy survives alone until vicious hounds target her and force her to join Aidan and his band, but soon they learn that she is the target of Sweepers, who kidnap and infect people with plague.

As their Alaskan village's only survivors of sickness brought by white men one winter early in the twentieth century, sisters Millie, aged thirteen, and Maura, ten, make their way south in hopes of finding someone alive.

Presents an overview of AIDS, covering its history, scope, diagnosis, treatment, research, and prevention; and includes a glossary, a bibliography, and a list of related organizations.

Examines some of the world's worst diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis, the Black Death, and Cholera, and describes how these epidemics helped to changed history.

Defines and discusses certain calamitous events around the world, from past to modern times, that have resulted in death, famine, or economic destruction.

Discusses the outbreak and worldwide spread of the deadly Spanish flu in 1918, methods of treating it, and efforts to study this killer virus and others like it.

The City, where the recently departed reside as long as they are remembered by the living, is home to Kuka Sims, who prints the City's only newspaper, Coleman Kinzler, a vagrant who speaks the word of God, and Marion and Philip Byrd, who find themselves falling in love once again, all of whom are remembered by Laura Byrd, whose own time is running out.

Ruby joins forces with the revolutionary Children's League to find critical information about the epidemic that has torn both her life and America apart.

Explores the role that human behavior has in creating epidemics showing how changes in agriculture, nutrition, sanitation, technology, sexual behavior, and economic conditions prepared for the spread of new diseases in the past.

In post-apocalyptic New York City, sixteen-year-old Jesse searches for survivors while dealing with crazed Chasers, dangerous power struggles, and so-called allies hiding a terrifying truth.