Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease

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Simon and Schuster, 2004 - 276 páginas
Plague is the greatest killer in human history, though it has only emerged occasionally, most famously in Justinian Rome and medieval Europe.Normally, it moves sluggishly from animal reservoirs into human populations, and it shows little capacity for epidemic spread. Yet under the right circumstances, it is the single most dangerous germ on the planet.Orent reveals how Soviet scientists created genetically-altered forms of this terrible affliction, knowing exactly how to convert plague into a deadly weapon.She shows how scientists are still unable to defend against it, and how plague could be visited upon humanity again.
 

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Introduction I
1
Return to Obolensk
7
The Mystery of Plague
31
The Winepress of God
61
The Renaissance Plague
141
VI
173
The Enduring Threat
209
Notes
235
Acknowledgments
265
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