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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 Miserables
- The worldwide outbreak of influenza in 1918, which killed 3 percent of the population
- The mysterious appearance of HIV in the 1980s
- The devastating spread of Ebola in West Africa in 2014
From ancient outbreaks of smallpox and plague to modern epidemics such as SARS and Ebola, the stories capture the mystery and devastation brought on by these diseases. It's a sickeningly fun read that confirms the true definition of going viral.
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- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: World Takeover: Malaria, Africa, 10,000 b.c.e.
- Chapter 2: The Fiery Serpent: Guinea Worm, Red Sea, 1495 b.c.e.
- Chapter 3: The Plague of Athens: Unknown Disease, Athens, 430 b.c.e.
- Chapter 4: Galen’s Plague: Smallpox, Rome, c.e. 165
- Chapter 5: The Plague of Justinian: Bubonic Plague, Constantinople, c.e. 542
- Chapter 6: A Vicious Cycle: Smallpox, Japan, c.e. 735
- Chapter 7: Message from a Sacred Mountain: Smallpox, China, c. 1000
- Chapter 8: Saint Anthony’s Fire: Ergotism, France, 1095
- Chapter 9: A Doomed Crusade: Scurvy, Egypt, 1249
- Chapter 10: The Knights of Lazarus: Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease), Europe, 1200s
- Chapter 11: China’s Plague: Bubonic Plague, China, c. 1331
- Chapter 12: The Black Death: Bubonic Plague, Europe, 1348
- Chapter 13: The Sweating Sickness: Unknown Disease, England, 1485
- Chapter 14: The First Invaders: Influenza, Hispaniola/Haiti, 1493
- Chapter 15: The French Disease: Syphilis, Italy, 1495
- Chapter 16: The Dancing Plague: Mass Psychogenic Illness, Strasbourg, 1518
- Chapter 17: The Fall of Moctezuma: Smallpox, Tenochtitlan, 1520
- Chapter 18: The Lost Cure for Scurvy: Scurvy, Stadacona (Modern-day Quebec), 1536
- Chapter 19: The King’s Evil: Scrofula, France, 1594
- Chapter 20: Squanto’s Backstory: Unknown Disease, Massachusetts, 1616
- Chapter 21: The First Miracle Cure: Malaria, Peru, 1630
- Chapter 22: The Great Plague of London: Bubonic Plague, London, 1665
- Chapter 23: Scourge of a Young Nation’s Capital: Yellow Fever, Philadelphia, 1793
- Chapter 24: Peeing Red: Schistosomiasis, Egypt, 1799
- Chapter 25: The Romantic Disease: Tuberculosis, England, 1800s
- Chapter 26: The Haitian Revolution: Yellow Fever, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), 1802
- Chapter 27: Birth of a Pandemic: Cholera, India, 1817
- Chapter 28: Childbed Fever: Uterine Infection, Vienna, 1847
- Chapter 29: Mapping Death: Cholera, London, 1854
- Chapter 30: Exiled on Molokai: Leprosy (Hansen's Disease), Hawaii, 1866
- Chapter 31: Beat of the Death-Drum: Measles, Fiji, 1875
- Chapter 32: Tunnel of Anemia: Hookworm, Switzerland, 1880
- Chapter 33: Rabies Loses Its Bite: Rabies, Paris, 1885
- Chapter 34: The Beriberi Box: Beriberi, Japan, 1884
- Chapter 35: The Chinatown Plague: Bubonic Plague, San Francisco, 1900
- Chapter 36: Down By the Riverside: Sleeping Sickness, Uganda, 1901
- Chapter 37: Typhoid Mary and Friends: Typhoid Fever, New York, 1907
- Chapter 38: An Unpopular Discovery: Pellagra, Mississippi, 1914
- Chapter 39: The “Spanish” Flu: Influenza, Worldwide, 1918
- Chapter 40: Serum by Dogsled: Diphtheria, Alaska, 1925
- Chapter 41: Just Another Horror: Typhus, Poland, 1945
- Chapter 42: The Beginning of the End for Polio: Polio, USA, 1952
- Chapter 43: Breakbone Fever: Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, Philippines, 1953
- Chapter 44: The Brain-Eating Amoeba: Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis, Australia, 1965
- Chapter 45: The Leak from Compound 19: Anthrax, USSR, 1979
- Chapter 46: AIDS Panic and Progress: AIDS, USA, 1980s
- Chapter 47: Mad Cow Spreads to Humans: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, England, 1996
- Chapter 48: The Locker Room Menace: MRSA, Los Angeles, 2002
- Chapter 49: The Secret Epidemic: SARS, Hong Kong, 2003
- Chapter 50: Ebola Is Real: Ebola, West Africa, 2014
- Further Reading