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

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Release: 2012-04-01
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1451695853
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Plague is a terrifying mystery. In the Middle Ages, it wiped out 40 million people -- 40 percent of the total population in Europe. Seven hundred years earlier, the Justinian Plague destroyed the Byzantine Empire and ushered in the Middle Ages. The plague of London in the seventeenth century killed more than 1,000 people a day. In the early twentieth century, plague again swept Asia, taking the lives of 12 million in India alone. Even more frightening is what it could do to us in the near future. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian scientists created genetically altered, antibiotic-resistant and vaccine-resistant strains of plague that can bypass the human immune system and spread directly from person to person. These weaponized strains still exist, and they could be replicated in almost any laboratory. Wendy Orent's Plague pieces together a fascinating and terrifying historical whodunit. Drawing on the latest research in labs around the world, along with extensive inte Download Plague for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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