plague

Presents a concise study of plagues, their causes and rapid spread, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases, and the problems of antibiotic resistance.

Traces the progress of this disease, and reveals how it transformed European society.

Marjorie has to find answers about the planet known as Grass. A plague that threatens to destroy all human life is spreading among the stars, on all worlds except Grass. Why is it immune?.

Eleven-year-old Gregor and his younger sister, Boots, return to the Underworld beneath New York City to find the cure for a terrible plague that threatens the life of their mother, as well as the lives of the people, bats, and rats who populate the underworld.

Fourteen-year-old Gwendoline Riston, having been accused of being a witch, is hidden away by her father after the plague hits her English town and witnesses the townspeople die from the sickness while blaming her for it.

Contains two novels in which Rachel and Robert, two young people living in London in 1665, share their individual stories of the chaos that erupts when the city is gripped by the plague.

Examines the Black Death and its impact on the structure of society, the population, and the economy, using excerpts from both contemporary descriptions of its devastating effects and scholarly articles.

Outlines the spread of the plague, or Black Death, in medieval Europe and reveals how this disease affected the human populations that contracted it. Explores modern instances of plague around the world and outlines efforts to study, cure, and prevent the spread of this disease. Includes full-color photographs throughout.

Soon after she, her mother, and her younger brother move into an old house on what was once known as Beggarsgate, Emily begins to have terrifyingly real glimpses of scenes of seventeenth-century London devastated by the plague.