History of plague disasters from antiquity to modern times
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The authors, historians of medicine, to the limit, saturated their text with information, which is completely unknown to the wide reader, and possibly most doctors. They consider the causes and course of plague epidemics, outline the existing and to this day its natural foci, including in our country. The plague is described not only and not so much as a disease, but primarily as a phenomenon that several times changed the vector of the development of human civilization. As a result, it turned out to be a fascinating and very cognitive reading, covering the history of plague disasters from the first in the sources of justinian plague in 531–589 to the Great Plague in Marseille 1720-1721 - the last in history. While the last, the authors hint, because the plague has not gone away: its causative agent of the bacterium Yersinia Pestis is naps in natural foci and may return at any time. Mikhail Supotnitsky is a military microbiologist, candidate of biological sciences, author of monographs and popular science books. Nadezhda Supotnitskaya is a biologist, writer
Author:
Author:Supotnitskaya N., Supotnitsky M.
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Cover:Hard
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- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Series:
Series: History. Geography. Ethnography
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-91678-682-8
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