pickThe title says it all. Skwarecki devotes a few pages each to 50 different epidemics through the centuries, from leprosy in the 12th century, to the seemingly endless rounds of smallpox, to Ebola more recently. And a haunting line about coronaviruses in the SARS chapter.
Anyway, a good overview of myriad plagues and epidemics across history without bogging the reader down on any single one.
pickA chronological history of 50 epidemics that terrorized the populace in which they occurred. Each chapter is about 3 pages long and gives a brief recap of the facts and the disease. I‘ve always been interested in epidemic and pandemic outbreaks because I find it very ironic that humans, who are at the top of the evolutionary pile, can be almost wiped out by a virus or bacteria we can‘t even see without a microscope.
Outbreak!: 50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World | 
