Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease AUTH-2283775 ISBN13: 9780595217571

ISBN13: 9780595217571

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Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease AUTH-2283775 ISBN13: 9780595217571Plague 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