Deadly diseases and epidemics

Discusses plague, including history, causes, methods of transmission, treatment, and modern epidemics.

Discusses botulism, including causes, transmission, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

Describes the diseases rubella and rubeola including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis and treatments.

Discusses the history of Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that is responsible for a number of upper digestive diseases, and how it is diagnosed and treated.

Provides an introduction to prostate cancer including what it is, who develops it, how it is diagnosed and how it is treated.

Describes the risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer.

Presents a concise study of meningitis, a disease that causes inflammation of the protective covering that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, and provides information on the symptoms and causes of the disease, the various forms of meningitis, as well as diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Presents an overview of toxic shock syndrome, explaining how septic diseases work and covering different types of the syndrome, its epidemiology, its diagnosis and treatment, and the legal cases that led to changes in tampon materials after the 1979-1982 toxic shock syndrome outbreak.

Presents an introduction to the herpes virus, including a discussion of the cause, symptoms, transmission, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease.

Outlines the history of malaria, highlighting how improvement in prevention and treatment have affected the disease's impact on the world's population.