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Nature 428, 19 (4 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/428019a
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Emerging epidemics
Tony McMichael1
BOOK REVIEWED-Six Modern Plagues: And How We are Causing Them
by Mark Jerome Walters
Island Press: 2003. 206 pp. $22
The word 'plague' has a profound historical, even biblical, resonance. In 1976, the historian William McNeill wrote his seminal book Plagues and Peoples, which explored how the emergence and spread of infectious diseases over millennia has reflected changes in human culture, demography and contact patterns.
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