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Introduction
The war between microbes and men
Early humans and their diseases
The seeds of change
Mosquitoes, malaria, and gene wars
Invitation to a minute worm: the schistosomes
Braving new worlds: invisible enemies of settlers
Domesticated animals and disease
Cows, mycobacteria, and tuberculosis
The moral disease: leprosy
The coming of civilization
Syphilis: the great change artist
Memories of smallpox
Pestilence, plague, and rats
Of lice and men: plus ticks, mites, and chiggers
Marching to a new world order: European expansion and the Industrial Revolution
Route to fame and gripe: cholera, the salmonella gang, and other prominent gut bugs
Transoceanic hitchhikers: yellow fever and its Dengue cousin
Food for thought: they mystery diseases
The globalization of influenza
Diseases of modern civilization
The new viral wars and sleeping dragons
Back to the future.
The war between microbes and men
Early humans and their diseases
The seeds of change
Mosquitoes, malaria, and gene wars
Invitation to a minute worm: the schistosomes
Braving new worlds: invisible enemies of settlers
Domesticated animals and disease
Cows, mycobacteria, and tuberculosis
The moral disease: leprosy
The coming of civilization
Syphilis: the great change artist
Memories of smallpox
Pestilence, plague, and rats
Of lice and men: plus ticks, mites, and chiggers
Marching to a new world order: European expansion and the Industrial Revolution
Route to fame and gripe: cholera, the salmonella gang, and other prominent gut bugs
Transoceanic hitchhikers: yellow fever and its Dengue cousin
Food for thought: they mystery diseases
The globalization of influenza
Diseases of modern civilization
The new viral wars and sleeping dragons
Back to the future.