When Germs Travel When Germs Travel
by:
Howard Markel (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307493071 (0307493075)
Publish date: January 21st 2009
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
When Germs Travel takes a look at 6 epidemics: bubonic plague, typhus, trachoma, HIV, tuberculosis and cholera that arose in the US in the past century or so. If you read a lot of medical history, much of the information will be old news. What may not be, however, is Markel's analysis of the role th...