Outbreak!
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Outbreak!

50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World

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eBook - ePub

Outbreak!

50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World

About this book

From ancient scourges to modern-day pandemics! Throughout history--even recent history--highly contagious, deadly, and truly horrible epidemics have swept through cities, countrysides, and even entire countries. Outbreak! catalogs fifty of those incidents in gruesome detail, including:

  • The Sweating Sickness that killed 15, 000, including Henry VIII's older brother
  • Syphilis, the "French Disease, " which spread throughout Europe in the late fifteenth century
  • The romantic disease: tuberculosis, featured in La Boheme, La Traviata, and Les Miserables
  • The worldwide outbreak of influenza in 1918, which killed 3 percent of the population
  • The mysterious appearance of HIV in the 1980s
  • The devastating spread of Ebola in West Africa in 2014

From ancient outbreaks of smallpox and plague to modern epidemics such as SARS and Ebola, the stories capture the mystery and devastation brought on by these diseases. It's a sickeningly fun read that confirms the true definition of going viral.

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Information

Publisher
Adams Media
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781440596278
eBook ISBN
9781440596285
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: World Takeover: Malaria, Africa, 10,000 b.c.e.
  5. Chapter 2: The Fiery Serpent: Guinea Worm, Red Sea, 1495 b.c.e.
  6. Chapter 3: The Plague of Athens: Unknown Disease, Athens, 430 b.c.e.
  7. Chapter 4: Galen’s Plague: Smallpox, Rome, c.e. 165
  8. Chapter 5: The Plague of Justinian: Bubonic Plague, Constantinople, c.e. 542
  9. Chapter 6: A Vicious Cycle: Smallpox, Japan, c.e. 735
  10. Chapter 7: Message from a Sacred Mountain: Smallpox, China, c. 1000
  11. Chapter 8: Saint Anthony’s Fire: Ergotism, France, 1095
  12. Chapter 9: A Doomed Crusade: Scurvy, Egypt, 1249
  13. Chapter 10: The Knights of Lazarus: Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease), Europe, 1200s
  14. Chapter 11: China’s Plague: Bubonic Plague, China, c. 1331
  15. Chapter 12: The Black Death: Bubonic Plague, Europe, 1348
  16. Chapter 13: The Sweating Sickness: Unknown Disease, England, 1485
  17. Chapter 14: The First Invaders: Influenza, Hispaniola/Haiti, 1493
  18. Chapter 15: The French Disease: Syphilis, Italy, 1495
  19. Chapter 16: The Dancing Plague: Mass Psychogenic Illness, Strasbourg, 1518
  20. Chapter 17: The Fall of Moctezuma: Smallpox, Tenochtitlan, 1520
  21. Chapter 18: The Lost Cure for Scurvy: Scurvy, Stadacona (Modern-day Quebec), 1536
  22. Chapter 19: The King’s Evil: Scrofula, France, 1594
  23. Chapter 20: Squanto’s Backstory: Unknown Disease, Massachusetts, 1616
  24. Chapter 21: The First Miracle Cure: Malaria, Peru, 1630
  25. Chapter 22: The Great Plague of London: Bubonic Plague, London, 1665
  26. Chapter 23: Scourge of a Young Nation’s Capital: Yellow Fever, Philadelphia, 1793
  27. Chapter 24: Peeing Red: Schistosomiasis, Egypt, 1799
  28. Chapter 25: The Romantic Disease: Tuberculosis, England, 1800s
  29. Chapter 26: The Haitian Revolution: Yellow Fever, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), 1802
  30. Chapter 27: Birth of a Pandemic: Cholera, India, 1817
  31. Chapter 28: Childbed Fever: Uterine Infection, Vienna, 1847
  32. Chapter 29: Mapping Death: Cholera, London, 1854
  33. Chapter 30: Exiled on Molokai: Leprosy (Hansen's Disease), Hawaii, 1866
  34. Chapter 31: Beat of the Death-Drum: Measles, Fiji, 1875
  35. Chapter 32: Tunnel of Anemia: Hookworm, Switzerland, 1880
  36. Chapter 33: Rabies Loses Its Bite: Rabies, Paris, 1885
  37. Chapter 34: The Beriberi Box: Beriberi, Japan, 1884
  38. Chapter 35: The Chinatown Plague: Bubonic Plague, San Francisco, 1900
  39. Chapter 36: Down By the Riverside: Sleeping Sickness, Uganda, 1901
  40. Chapter 37: Typhoid Mary and Friends: Typhoid Fever, New York, 1907
  41. Chapter 38: An Unpopular Discovery: Pellagra, Mississippi, 1914
  42. Chapter 39: The “Spanish” Flu: Influenza, Worldwide, 1918
  43. Chapter 40: Serum by Dogsled: Diphtheria, Alaska, 1925
  44. Chapter 41: Just Another Horror: Typhus, Poland, 1945
  45. Chapter 42: The Beginning of the End for Polio: Polio, USA, 1952
  46. Chapter 43: Breakbone Fever: Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, Philippines, 1953
  47. Chapter 44: The Brain-Eating Amoeba: Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis, Australia, 1965
  48. Chapter 45: The Leak from Compound 19: Anthrax, USSR, 1979
  49. Chapter 46: AIDS Panic and Progress: AIDS, USA, 1980s
  50. Chapter 47: Mad Cow Spreads to Humans: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, England, 1996
  51. Chapter 48: The Locker Room Menace: MRSA, Los Angeles, 2002
  52. Chapter 49: The Secret Epidemic: SARS, Hong Kong, 2003
  53. Chapter 50: Ebola Is Real: Ebola, West Africa, 2014
  54. Further Reading