TY - BOOK AU - Dobson,Mary TI - Disease: the extraordinary stories behind history's deadliest killers SN - 9781847240149 PY - 2007///, 2013 CY - Londres (Inglaterra) PB - Metro books, Quercus KW - Enfermedades transmisibles KW - Historia KW - Infecciones bacterianas KW - Estilo de vida KW - Ciencia KW - Epidemias N1 - Incluye índice; Bacterial diseases. Plague ; Leprosy ; Syphilis ; Typhus ; Cholera ; Typhoid ; Tuberculosis ; Puerperal fever ; Encephalitic lethargica -- Parasitic diseases. Malaria ; African trypanosomiasis ; Chagas' disease ; Lymphatic filariasis ; Schistosomiasis ; Hookworm ; Onchocerciasis -- Viral diseases. Smallpox ; Measles ; Yellow fever ; Dengue fever ; Rabies ; Polio ; Influenza ; Ebola ; AIDS ; SARS -- Lifestyle diseases. Scurvy ; Kuru & CJD ; Cancer ; Heart disease N2 - The compelling and sometimes frightening stories of 30 deadly diseases - and of humanity's efforts to combat them ER -