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Susan
Scott, Christopher Duncan.
Return of the Black
Death: The World's Greatest Serial Killer.
Chichester: Wiley, 2004.
318pp.
Hardback.
ISBN 0470090006.
Publisher's
recommended price $27.00
The
Black Death was the most terrible and notorious serial killer of all
time. Using original parish records, wills and diaries, Sue Scott and
Christopher Duncan reveal the causes of the terrible plague and the
human stories behind the statistics. In their skilled hands the records
yield some surprising and disturbing truths. Using this evidence, Scott
and Duncan prove conclusively that these plagues were not Bubonic
Plague, as had been believed throughout the twentieth century, and were
not spread by rats. They were the result of a lethal and highly
infectious virus transmitted directly from person to person. The
disease currently remains in hiding, but the Black Death, or something
like it, could re-emerge at any time and, with today's highly mobile
community, the consequences would be catastrophic.
Contents: 1: Birth of a Serial Killer. 2: The Black Death Crosses the
Channel. 3: After the Black Death: The French Connection. 4: Tentacles
of the Plague. 5: England under Siege. 6: Portrait of an Epidemic. 7:
The Great Plague of London. 8: How Bugs and Germs Operate. 9: Building
an Identikit of the Killer. 10: Debunking History. 11: The Biology of
Bubonic Plague: A Myth Revisited. 12: DNA Analysis: A Red Herring. 13:
The True Story of a Historic Village. 14: The Surprising Link between
AIDS and the Black Death. 15: Assembling the Jigsaw Puzzle. 16: The
Black Death in Hiding. 17: Why Did Haemorrhagic Plague Suddenly
Disappear? 18: The Dangers of Emergent Diseases. 19: The Return of the
Black Death? 20: Is There Something more Terrible than the Black Death?
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