plague

"While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague. This disease, also known as the 'Black Death,' spread throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe in the fourteenth century and claimed . . . 50 million lives by the time it officially ended. [The] author . . . takes readers back to these . . . years, explaining just how this pandemic began, how society reacted to the disease, and the impact it left on the world"--Amazon.

"As we learn more about COVID-19, we may be curious about pandemics of the past. Knowing how humans fought diseases long ago may help us face those of today. In this [book] filled with facts, pictures, and diagrams about diseases--from plague to smallpox to polio to flu . . . brings voices from the past to life in this exploration of the deadliest diseases of then and now"--Provided by publisher.

Provides a history of how the United States has responded to outbreaks of contagious disease throughout history, from small pox to the COVID-19 pandemic. Discusses the government's response, pushback from the public, how rules and regulations have changed, and what the government has learned and failed to learn.

This title focuses on the AIDS crisis and gives information related to its symptoms, causes, and global impact.

This title focuses on the Typhoid epidemic and gives information related to its symptoms, causes, and global impact.

This title focuses on the Spanish Flu and gives information related to its symptoms, causes, and global impact.

This title focuses on the Ebola outbreak and gives information related to its symptoms, causes, and global impact.

A pair of medical examiners find themselves battling a dead man who won't stay dead. In a Midwestern trailer park, a Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a new religion out of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come.

"The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia, the plague swept through Europe, leaving millions of dead in its wake. Between a quarter and a third of Europe's population died, and in England the population fell from nearly six million to just over three million"--Provided by publisher.

A mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence. Eventually, in San Francisco, he encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life.