Lessons from pandemics past
Some big-picture observations from "Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History"
Kyle Harper’s Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History is a book well worth reading for its account of the long-running contest between humanity and its microbial nemeses. His previous book, The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire, chronicled the profound influence climate change and infectious disease had on t…
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