Provides information about pandemics--epidemics that spread throughout the world, features accounts of some of history's most devastating pandemics, including the 1918 outbreak of influenza, looks at some of the emerging diseases in the twenty-first century, and discusses technologies and treatments.
Describes the 1918 influenza pandemic, from how World War I soldiers spread the disease to recent scientific efforts to understand the virus that took between twenty and forty million lives worldwide.
Presents an overview of malaria, covering its history, scope, diagnosis, treatment, research, and prevention; and includes a glossary, a bibliography, and a list of related organizations.
Presents an overview of smallpox, covering its history, scope, diagnosis, treatment, research, and prevention; and includes a glossary, a bibliography, and a list of related organizations.
Meg's diary: St. Louis to the Kansas Territory 1856
Dear America series
2001
When her mother and sister fall ill, Meg and her brother Preston are sent to live with relatives on the prairie to avoid the cholera epidemic in St. Louis.
During a malaria epidemic in late eighteenth-century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone.
Sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.
