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Outbreak! - by Beth Skwarecki (Paperback)

 Outbreak! - by  Beth Skwarecki (Paperback)
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<b>From ancient scourges to modern-day pandemics!</b> <p/> Throughout history--even recent history--highly contagious, deadly, and truly horrible epidemics have swept through cities, countrysides, and even entire countries. <i>Outbreak!</i> catalogs fifty of those incidents in gruesome detail, including: <ul><li>The Sweating Sickness that killed 15,000, including Henry VIII's older brother</li><li>Syphilis, the "French Disease," which spread throughout Europe in the late fifteenth century</li><li>The romantic disease: tuberculosis, featured in <i>La Boheme</i>, <i>La Traviata</i>, and <i>Les Miserables</i></li><li>The worldwide outbreak of influenza in 1918, which killed 3 percent of the population</li><li>The mysterious appearance of HIV in the 1980s</li><li>The devastating spread of Ebola in West Africa in 2014</li></ul>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 <i>going viral</i>.

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