Plague's Progress: A Social History of Man and Disease

Arno Karlen

How do human travel, building and contact with animals let new diseases reach people and spread?

At a glance

You will see how dams and irrigation can create new breeding grounds for the insects that carry disease
You will stop treating outbreaks in distant places as someone else's problem, as people once did with diseases thought exotic
You will understand how a disease long confined to one region can strike outsiders once war or travel brings new people into its range