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Description of  The World's Deadliest Plagues The History and Legacy of the Worst Global Pandemics [Audiobook]

9798868781 MP3@64 kbps English | ISBN: 9798868781698 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:45:00 | 159 MB Such virulent outbreaks of disease are by no means distant historical events. While scientific and technological advances have limited and in many places eradicated such community-devastating diseases as cholera, smallpox, bubonic plague, typhus, Salmonella and yellow fever, new microscopic threats have arisen, including Ebola, SARS, bird flu, and most recently Coronavirus 2. The terror associated with pestilence speaks to people's insecurities concerning the unknown and invisible. The ancients had no knowledge of microorganisms that caused disease-instead they postulated that pestilence was caused by miasma, air fouled by decomposing matter. That said, modern awareness of microscopic viruses and bacteria does nothing to lessen humanity's insecurity. If anything, it is terrifying that such tiny creatures have the capacity to overthrow powerful and vibrant societies. This is one of the themes of H. G. Wells' famous War of the Worlds (1897). When the human race fails to survive the onslaught of Martian invaders and was on the point of extinction, it is microbes, not men, that destroys them. Microscopic organisms become the ultimate lords of Earth, over both humans and Martians.