epidemics

This book describes pandemics, including the microbes that cause disease, how diseases spread, and what scientists are doing to stop pandemics.

Explores the black death plagues and its effect on different parts of the world.

"A discussion of a major type of natural disaster, including descriptions of some of the most destructive; explanations of these phenomena, what causes them, and where they occur; and information about how to prepare for and survive these forces of nature. Features include an activity, glossary, list of resources, and index"--Provided by publisher.

Describes the great plagues and epidemics that have occurred throughout history, including the Black Death, smallpox, AIDS, and others.

Between the years 1918 and 1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in our nation's past. For countless survivors, though, the trauma never ended, shadowing the remainder of their lives with memories of loss.

Tadashi hopes to rescue Kaori, who was horribly mutated, but the cure that might be provided by Doctor Koyanagi may be worse than the disease.

Tadashi and Kaori become caught up in chain of horrifying events when a strange, germ-laden fish with legs comes ashore in Okinawa.

Provides accounts of fifty of the world's most historically significant epidemics, from the unidentified epidemic that struck ancient Athens, to tuberculosis in the twenty-first century, and discusses the effects of the outbreaks on demographics, politics, economies, and religion.

A shooting star and a series of exploding electrical devices herald the arrival of a mysterious outbreak of strange symptoms that defy diagnosis.