Quiet killers : the fall and rise of deadly diseases
"Mixing informative discussion of relevant infectious diseases with history and first-hand accounts of what it is like to have, for example, the plague, Quiet Killers ranges from the most common disease - tooth decay - to one of the most dangerous - smallpox, deliberately released as a weapon of terror. It reveals that the great influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more people than the First World War; that bioterrorism was first used by the ancient...