Outbreak!
50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World
Ranked #10 in Ebola
From ancient scourges to modern-day pandemics!
Throughout history--even recent history--highly contagious, deadly, and truly horrible epidemics have swept through cities, countrysides, and even entire countries. Outbreak! catalogs fifty of those incidents in gruesome detail, including:
The Sweating Sickness that killed 15,000, including Henry VIII's older brother
Syphilis, the "French Disease," which spread throughout Europe in the late fifteenth century
The romantic disease: tuberculosis, featured in La Boheme, La Traviata, and Les... more
Throughout history--even recent history--highly contagious, deadly, and truly horrible epidemics have swept through cities, countrysides, and even entire countries. Outbreak! catalogs fifty of those incidents in gruesome detail, including:
The Sweating Sickness that killed 15,000, including Henry VIII's older brother
Syphilis, the "French Disease," which spread throughout Europe in the late fifteenth century
The romantic disease: tuberculosis, featured in La Boheme, La Traviata, and Les... more
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