An interesting website about the major epidemics of history is here.

Below is a list of our favorite readings on this interesting topic.

• The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance (by L. Garrett)

• The Hot Zone (by R. Preston)

• Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Time (by A. Karlen)

• Viruses, Plagues, and History (Michael B. A. Oldstone )