wet markets, 178–79
white blood cells, 77–78
White, William, 192
Whitewater Arroyo virus, 175
whooping cough, 62, 92, 195
Why Nations Fail (Acemoglu and Robinson), 65
wild animals, consumption of, 14
William of Orange, King of England, 125
women: disease resistance in, 128
evolving equality for, 8, 147, 163, 235, 248, 264
impact of Black Death on, 48–49
limited autonomy of, 25–26, 48–49
mortality rates for, 25
religious denigration of, 101–2
value of education for, 142
women’s health, 90
Wootton, David, xiii
workplaces: women in, 163
working at home vs., 224
World Bank, 185, 217, 229
World Health Assembly, 137
World Health Organization (WHO), xii, 124, 136, 137, 143, 160, 176, 182, 189, 207, 225–29, 261 Health Emergencies Program of, 228
World War I, 91, 112–13, 136
World War II, 47, 135–36, 138, 199, 200, 210
worms, xii, 14, 16, 18, 19, 25, 55, 142
wound treatment, 113
xenophobia, 81, 88–91, 95, 158, 234, 254
yaws, 55
yellow fever, 14, 61, 70, 106, 132, 152, 175, 181, 190
Yersin, Alexandre, 93
Yersinia pestis, see Black Death
Yunnan plague, 225
Zika, 189–90
zinc deficiency, 25
Zinsser, Hans, 67, 68–69
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