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COVID-19 and other pandemics : a comparison / Don Nardo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nardo, Don, 1947- author.
- Series:
- History.
- History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemics--History--Juvenile literature.
- Epidemics.
- COVID-19 (Disease)--Juvenile literature.
- COVID-19 (Disease).
- Diseases and history--Juvenile literature.
- Diseases and history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (80 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Other Title:
- COVID-19 and Other Pandemics
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : ReferencePoint Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Similarities between human reactions to onslaughts of deadly diseases separated by millennia illustrates the morbid universality of such outbreaks. It reminds us that large attacks of lethal germs are nothing new, nor are human reactions to them. One problem inherent in such pandemics is that over time people tend to forget the lessons of past"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter one. Pandemic diseases in the ancient era
- chapter two. The Black Death devastates Europe
- chapter three. Conquest and disease : the Columbian plagues
- chapter four. Influenza sweeps the world
- chapter five. Polio : shock disease of the modern age.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781678200435
- 1678200433
- OCLC:
- 1227994772
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