Cover of Viruses, plagues, and history

Viruses, plagues, and history

by Michael B. A. Oldstone

1998 211 pages eng

"Nearly 300 million people were killed by smallpox over the course of the twentieth century. During the years 1918 and 1919, a deadly variant of the influenza strain claimed over 20 million lives. And today we face new viral threats: mad cow disease, the Hantavirus, and of course, AIDS. As Michael O…

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