Contents

Prologue

1 Conquering a Pandemic That Raged from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

2 Discovery of Infectious Disease-Causing Microbes and the Dawn of the Modern Era of Vaccines

3 Viruses and the Emergence of Pandemics

4 Immunity

5 Spread and Mitigation of Pandemics

6 Antiviral Therapies

7 Vaccines

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

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