Epidemics: The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases

ISBN-13: 9780821420287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 156 str.

Howard Phillips

Opis

This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and HIV/AIDS-the book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences.