Murderous Contagion by Mary Dobson £20 donation An acclaimed

An acclaimed

But when the unexplained deaths of her neighbours force the government to quarantine the village

'Sympathetic and sharp-eyed

September 1665

Murderous Contagion by Mary Dobson £20 donation An acclaimedDisease is the true 'serial killer' of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters combined. Murderous contagion tells the story of the devastating impact of diseases on humankind from the Black Death of the 14th century to the Spanish flu of 1918 19 and the AIDS epidemic of the modern