Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses - by Heather E Quinlan

Plagues, Pandemics, and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid-19 is a comprehensive guide that covers the history, causes, medical treatments, human responses, and aftermath of the world's biggest pandemics.

This book provides an invaluable resource for understanding and protecting yourself from plagues, pandemics, epidemics, viruses, and diseases.

With a conversational tone and clear organization, this book is perfect for high-school student researchers and the general public.

The author draws parallels to the present and chronicles the diseases that have inflicted man throughout the millennia, including the differences (and similarities) between COVID-19 and other coronaviruses, the bubonic plague/black plague, which wiped out 30% to 60% of Europe's population, the devastation to the indigenous population during the European colonization of the Americas, the 1918 Spanish Flu, which did not come from Spain, how disease "inspired" The Canterbury Tales, Wuthering Heights, the pop art of Keith Haring, and other art and literature, AIDS' "patient zero," how climate change will affect future pandemics, and much more.

With richly illustrated pages, an exclusive interview with Dr.

Anthony S.

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and other experts in the medical community, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the history and science behind plagues, pandemics, and viruses.