Download or read book Deadliest Diseases Then and Now written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deadly pandemics have always been a part of life, from the Great Mortality of the Middle Ages, to the Spanish Influenza of 1918, to the eruption of COVID-19 in our own century. They might have seemed like things to read about in history books--until the unthinkable happened, and our own lives were turned upside down by the emergence of the novel coronavirus. A fast-paced, wide-ranging story filled with facts, pictures, and diagrams about diseases--from plague to small pox to polio to flu.