epidemics

A psychopathic serial killer in southern California is releasing plagues akin to the biblical ones, and it is up to virologist Jack Byrne, reporter Vicky Wade, and a young Orthodox Jewish scholar to track down the maniac and stop him in time.

The remote Maine town of Corpus Christi was spared from the environmental crisis that destroyed the neighboring town, until a third-grade boy on a field trip unearths an ancient plague that will transform its victims into something violent and evil, feeding on every living thing until the entire town is destroyed.

Contains over seven hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about some of the most significant epidemics and contagions in the history of the world from the Philistine plague of the eleventh century BCE through the South African cholera epidemic of2000/2001.

Dr. Toby Harper, attempting to track a patient who disappeared out of the Springer Hospital emergency room, finds herself on the trail of a deadly epidemic.

A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.

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.

Billions are infected with the Morningstar virus, causing the world's population to be overrun with zombies, and Francis Sherman and Anna Demilio are amongst the survivors looking for a vaccine, but to find it, they must travel across a countryside rampant with the infected and lawless survivors.

Documents all of the major, outstanding and unusual epidemics throughout the world, from the dawn of human history to the present day.

Chronicles the impact of epidemic illnesses on human culture from prehistory to the twenty-first century, and includes a glossary, a historical bibliography, and a table of epidemic diseases and their sources.