This revelatory book charts and explains the impact and consequences of successive pandemics, plagues and epidemics on the course of world history – all through the lens of today’s ongoing global experience of COVID 19. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, it first defines what constitut...
As we wade into this new age of pandemics, it is critical to rethink how we write the history of pandemics. With a conviction that the past helps us to understand the present and that the present should help us to rethink the past, I turn to the legacy of past plagues. In this ...
Human development and evolution, in its social, cultural and ecololgical setting, gives rise to alterations in the human orgnaism, both in body and mind, against which it must stuggle. Even accepting criticism to old diagnosis, paleopathology discovers high incidence of diseases in ealty times....
the medieval diseasepar excellence, still exists today. A wildlife refuge was closed last summer near Denver, Colorado, when infected prairie dogs were discovered. And, in 2017, Madagascar saw a large outbreak. More than 2,300 cases of plague were diagnosed on the island, leading to over 200...
其他主要作品有《世界史》(A World History)、《瘟疫与人》(Plagues and Peoples)、《竞逐富强》(The Pursuit of Power)、《人类之网》(The Human Web,与其子约翰•麦克尼尔合著)、《追寻真理》(The Pursuit of Truth)等。 杰里·H. 本特利(Jerry H. Bentley,1949—2012) ...
The bacteriumYersinia pestiscauses plague. In the natural state, the bacteria infect wild rodents. Plagues can still be found in many areas of the world, but 95% of cases today occur in Madagascar and sub-Saharan Africa. The World Health Organization states that between 1,000-2,000 cases ar...
Of all the plagues, influenza seems to have a long-standing history in Ethiopia. However, it came in different guises and was mostly given the generic name Gunfan. The word influenza is first mentioned in1698 by the German scholar, Job Ludolf, in his Amharic-Latin dictionary as gunfan or...
Mosquitoes have profoundly affected human history and continue to threaten human health through the transmission of a diverse array of pathogens. The phylogeny of mosquitoes has remained poorly characterized due to difficulty in taxonomic sampling and li
despotic emperors, the barbarians invade again and again, the plans for reform fail, the key institutions become corrupt, the government loses control of the army, there are plagues that last for decades, the harvests ...
Plague is an infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium transmitted from rodents to humans by the bite of infected fleas. Plague has caused some of the most-devastating epidemics in history. It was the disease behind the Black Death of the