The Atlas of Disease

Mapping Deadly Epidemics and Contagion from the Plague to the Coronavirus

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In world and regional maps, this Atlas tracks epidemics and pandemics caused by the 20 most virulent diseases across the centuries, from the Plague of Athens in 430 BCE (thought to have been typhus) to COVID-19. Accompanying data and illustrated commentaries set the spread of disease in historical, social and medical contexts and record details of major epidemics, including treatments, the ‘blame game’ and breakthroughs such as the smallpox vaccine. Off-mint

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