Pandemic Survival · It's Why You're Alive by Love, Ann -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Dedication Acknowledgments Prevention and Cure

Living Proof Talk about Sick! Bacterial Invasion Viral Attack Bugs and the Bloodstream Lifestyle Choices and Chances Why Soap and Water?

Ancient Stories, Modern Diagnoses

Wrath of the Gods First Epidemics—or Not The Plague of Athens Death of a Demigod Empire and Epidemics Hippocrates and Galen—Miasmas and Humors vs. the Supernatural

The Middle Ages (600–1500): Sin and Suffering

Leprosy: The Wages of Sin The Black Death (1348–1351) Living with Death The Art of Death So You Think You Can Dance? The English Sweat

The Age of Discovery (1500–1800): Sickness Ship to Shore

Smallpox Goes Viral Contagion or Conquest? Old Diseases Meet New People Inoculation, Vaccination, Extinction Return to Sender: Syphilis and Scurvy The Black Vomit aka Yellow Fever Superstition to Science

The Industrial Age (1800–1900): Prosperity, Pollution, and Pandemics

Antibiotics Before and After

World War I and the Spanish Flu Childhood Diseases The Impact of Antibiotics The Devastating Polio Epidemics Meningitis AIDS: A Modern Plague

Global Village

Jumping Species SARS—Pandemic Panic Biological Warfare: Then and Now Are Your Vaccinations Up-To-Date? Big Lessons from Pandemics

Glossary