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Author: Richard Platt

📘 Plagues, pox, and pestilence by Richard Platt

Provides a history of disease and pestilence as told from the point of view of the bugs and pests that caused them, from common diseases such as influenza, malaria and tuberculosis to such rare diseases as leprosy, cholera, and bubonic plague.

First publish date: 2011

Authors: Richard Platt

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