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The threat of unstoppable plagues, such as AIDS and Ebola, is always with us. In Europe, the most devastating plagues we
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Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically n
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Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A ph
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"In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey raced home to Austi
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For thousands of years, humans have found themselves vulnerable to plagues of desert locusts. Some fifty countries in Af
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'I blame the pencil. I hadn't meant to do it. I wasn't thinking. It just happened that way.' In Mar
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In The Plagues of Egypt, molecular biologist Siro Trevisanato assembles data gleaned from a variety of ancient texts and
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In the 1980s our comforting illusion that we had conquered plagues through our discovery of vaccines and antibiotics was
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Until recently, plagues were thought to belong in the ancient past. Now there are deep worries about global pandemics. T
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