Deadly diseases and epidemics

Provides an overview of polio, explaining how it effects humans, the history of the disease, vaccines, post-polio syndrome, famous individuals who have contracted it, and other related topics.

Presents a historical overview of typhoid fever, discussing its causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention, and examines the problems of antibiotic resistance.

Presents an overview of the disease polio, covering its history, transmission, and other aspects, and the lives of vaccine developers Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk.

Provides an overview of the nature, origins, treatment, transmission, and vaccine research of the Ebola and Marburg viruses.

Examines the microbiology of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the prevention and treatment of mono, and complications and related infections caused by EBV. Includes colored illustrations and a glossary of terms.

Examines the different types of meningitis and discusses its epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Discusses the symptoms, transmission, history, vaccine, and research associated with yellow fever, a viral disease, covering future prospects for preventing its spread and controlling it in areas with limited health care, such as parts of Africa and South America.

Presents an overview of the disease whooping cough, covering its transmission, symptoms, treatments, prevention, genome, and other related aspects.

A comprehensive study on the deadly SARS illness that began in 2003 that discusses its spread, symptoms, diagnosis, management, treatment, and prevention, and explores its impact and what was learned from the epidemic.

A study of the E. coli bacteria that examines outbreaks, what it is, infectious diseases, transmission, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and other related topics.