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Index
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Abutaleb, Yasmeen, 205
Acemoglu, Daron, 65, 165–66
Aedes aegypti, 189–90
Afonso, King of the Kongo, 63–64
Afridi, Shakil, 197
Against the Grain (Scott), 28
Age of Discovery, spread of disease in, 53–74
Aghion, Philippe, 166
agriculture, 5–6, 10, 17, 26, 27, 41, 55, 112, 154, 174, 176–77, 179, 203, 236, 241 antibiotic misuse in, 202–3, 220
factory farming in, 176–77, 203
pesticide use in, 200
slavery and, 48–49
in spread of disease, 18, 23–24
trade and, 31
waste as fertilizer for, 108–9
AIDS, see HIV/AIDS
air pollution, 102–4
air travel, 93, 158, 169, 171, 183
Alexander IV, Pope, 42
allergies, 198–99
Alonso, Pedro, xii
Alsan, Marcella, 114, 154
Amazon, exploration of, 59–60
ampicillin, 203
Anderson, E. S., 201–2
anemia, 23, 79
Angeles, Luis, 161
Aniceto, Pascual, 129
Annals of the Cakchiquels, The, 53, 58
anthrax, 14, 55, 91, 132–34, 139, 208–11
antibacterial soap, 199
antibiotic resistance, 179, 201–7
antibiotics, 7, 10, 74, 135–36, 140, 143, 163, 186, 199, 228 global agreements for use of, 219–20
misuse of, 9, 179, 190, 201–7, 220
antiretroviral drugs, 174, 184, 200, 216
anti-Semitism, 46, 85–87
antiseptics, 113
anti-vaccination movements, 192–98, 235
Antonine plague, 36
Apocalypse, The (Dürer), 231
Aristotle, 32
Armelagos, George, 169
Armies of Pestilence (Bray), 106
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne), 178
artemisinin, 200
Asclepius, 14
Asian Americans, bias against, 95
asthma, 199
Atahualpa, 59
Athens, plague of, 11, 28, 31–33, 46
atomic weapons, 210
attenuated (weakened) bacteria, 133
Australian Aborigines, 15, 66
autism, 193–94
avian influenza (bird flu), 9, 175, 210
Bad Medicine (Wootton), xiii
Bajardi, Paolo, 182
Banerjee, Abhijit, 155
Barr, Richard, 193–94
Barrett, Ronald, 179
bathing, sanitation and, 100–102
Baths and Washhouses Act, British (1846), 110
bats, 139, 175, 177
Bazalgette, Joseph, 97, 108–10, 113–16
bedbugs, 95
bed nets, 7, 143, 144, 200, 216–17
Bedson, Henry, 124
Bernstein, William, 38
Better Angels of Our Nature, The (Pinker), 15–16
Bible, 17, 67–68, 83, 101, 106, 233, 242, 244
bifurcated needles, 136–37
Billing, Jennifer, 99
biological warfare, bioweapons, 9, 190, 208–11, 228
Biological Weapons Convention, 211, 228
bioterrorism, US response to, 211
birth control, 4
birth rates, 15, 16, 234 decline in, 8, 49, 161, 162, 234
Black Death (Yersinia pestis), 6, 10, 27, 43–49, 60, 86�
��87, 92, 105, 122–23, 128, 173, 207, 209, 235 aftermath of, 47–49, 56
exclusion in, 86–89
mortality rates from, 43, 45–46, 184, 209
quackery in, 122
resurgence of, 185–86
in Roman Empire, 37–41
sources of, 50
symptoms of, 37–38, 44–45
vaccine for, 186
weaponized, 208–9
bloodletting, 121–22, 131
Bloom, David, 162
Boccaccio, 44, 87–88
border crossings, 181–82, 185
Borodino, 71–72, 113
Boserup, Ester, 26, 28
botulism, botulinum, 14, 210
Bray, R. S., 106
Brazil, 23, 63, 224 Zika outbreak in, 189–90
Breaux, Emma Grace, 205
Britain, 105, 106, 201, 223, 224 anti-vaccination movement in, 194
in import and export trade, 159
measles outbreak in, 194
mortality rankings in, 113–14
population of, 64
smallpox in, 125–26, 127
bromide of potassium, 113
bronchitis, 144, 202
bubonic plague, 14, 67, 205 see also Black Death
Burnet, Frank, 172
Burton, Dan, 194
Caesar, Julius, 33–35
Caffa, siege of, 44, 207
Calcutta Medical Board, 105
calomel, 132
campylobacter bacteria, 204
cancer, 196, 206–7, 266
Cão, Diogo, 63
carbenicillin, 203
cardiovascular disease, xi, 79, 144–46, 157
Caroline, Princess of Wales, 127
Carter, Jimmy, 142
Cartwright, Frederick, 34
ceftaroline, drug-resistant, 207
Center for Economic Policy Research, 65
Center for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, 221
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US, 95, 172, 176, 205, 206, 226
Chadwick, Edwin, 97, 106–9
Chandler, Tertius, 28, 156
chemotherapy, 206
chicken cholera, 133
chickenpox, 134–35, 138, 195–96
chickens, 177, 203–4
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