This revelatory book charts and explains the impact and
consequences of successive pandemics, plagues and epidemics on the
course of world history - all through the lens of today's ongoing
global experience of COVID 19\. Ranging from prehistory to the
present day, it first defines what constitutes a pandemic or
epidemic then looks at 20 guilty diseases: including cholera,
influenza, bubonic plague, leprosy, measles, smallpox, malaria,
AIDS, MERS, SARS, Zika, Ebola and, of course, Covid-19\. Some less
well-known, but equally significant and deadly contagions such as
Legionnaires' Disease, psittacosis, polio, the Sweat, and dancing
plague, are also covered. The book is ordered chronologically. Each
chapter features an explanation and description of epidemiology,
sources and vectors, morbidity, mortality, governmental response
and reaction, societal response and impact as well as psychological
issues where known - and the political, legal and scientific
consequences it had or has for each locus at a local and
international level. In short - the book explains how each of the
events both made and influenced subsequent history in its own way,
particularly how each shaped future medical and scientific research
and vaccine development programmes. It also examines myths about
infectious diseases, the role of the media and social media.
Perhaps most importantly, Paul Chrystal asks what lessons have been
learnt. Will we be better prepared next time? Because, if one thing
is sure, there is going to be a 'next time'.
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