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Barnard, Bryn.
OUTBREAK : PLAGUES THAT CHANGED HISTORY
New York : Crown, 2005
IL 3-6
ISBN 037592986X
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Every day we pick up the newspaper or turn on the news to hear about another threat to our health.  Be it West Nile virus or Eastern Equine Encephalitis or Avian Flu, each is touted as being the next major outbreak.  What were some of the major outbreaks of the past?  And just how widespread were they?  How did the pandemics start?  And what stopped them?
SUBJECTS:     Communicable disease -- History.
                        Epidemics -- History.
                        Diseases and history.

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