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Author Markel, Howard.

Title When germs travel : six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed / Howard Markel.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2004]
©2004
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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  614.4973 MARKEL    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  614.4973 MAR    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  614.49 M345W    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-251) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Facing tuberculosis -- Bubonic Plague visits San Francisco's Chinatown -- The rabbi with trachoma: the view from Ellis Island -- Lice, typhus, and riots on the Texas-Mexico border -- No one's idea of a tropical paradise: Haitian immigrants and AIDS -- Sounding the cholera alarm in Detroit -- Epilogue: Public health Is purchasable."
Subject Communicable diseases -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Communicable diseases -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Epidemics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Epidemics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Communicable Diseases -- history -- United States.
Epidemics -- history -- United States.
Emigration and Immigration -- history -- United States.
History, Modern 1601- -- 19th century -- United States.
History, Modern 1601- -- 20th century -- United States.
ISBN 0375420959
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