Helps students understand how deadly diseases are spread, explains how drugs and vaccines have stopped the spread of diseases such as smallpox, and discusses how medical researchers are working to stop the spread of new diseases.
Discusses the causes, diagnosis, and classification of some diseases that are passed from one human to another, including plagues, sexually transmitted diseases, and the common cold.
Follows the explorations of scientists who research the fatal maladies known as prion diseases, tracking the origin of the stealthy plague to a cannibal feast in New Guinea in 1950 and discussing the risk posed to those who eat meat.
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.
