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Authors: John Aberth
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Plagues in World History (50 page)
Tyson Foods, 129
118, 125
viruses, 73–74, 111–12, 135–36
‘Ubayda, Abum, 29–30, 54
Vyápári
(newspaper), 66, 68–69
Uganda, 159, 161, 163, 164
Ukraine, 175
Waksman, Selman, 90
Umar, Caliph.
See
al-Khattamb, Umar ibn war, and transmission of disease, 8, 35,
‘Umar of Málaga, 45
76–77, 81, 82, 85, 106, 115–18, 120–
United Nations AIDS agency
21, 161
(UNAIDS), 159, 164
al-Wardıµ, Ibn, 33–35, 50, 61
United States: and AIDS, 144–55, 167,
Washington, Denzel, 150
169; and cholera, 106; and H1N1
Washington, George, 85
flu, 118, 120–23, 125–28, 130–33;
wasting syndrome/disease, 138, 155
plague in, 19, 23, 62, 69–70;
The Wedding Singer
(film), 150
smallpox in, 78, 85; tuberculosis in,
White, Ryan, 147.
See also
Ryan White 92, 94–99
Care Act
U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 87
Whitmore, Thomas, 79–80
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 129
WHO.
See
World Health Organization
U.S. Department of Health and Human Williams, Nushawn, 153
Services, 132
Wilson, Woodrow, 120–21
U.S. Supreme Court, 147
women, and AIDS, 152, 165–66
World Bank, 131, 172
vaccination: for HIV, 139–40; for
World Health Organization (WHO),
influenza, 111, 125–27, 129–30,
11, 71, 87, 96–97, 124–25, 130, 132
132–33; opposition to, 85–86, 126–
World Influenza Center, 124
27, 132–33; significance of, 85; for
World Trade Organization (WTO), 171
smallpox, 85–87; for tuberculosis,
World War I, 120–21
90–91
Wu Liande, 64, 65, 68, 112, 119
vampires, 94–95
Vancouver, Canada, 132
yellow fever, 2, 108
Variola major
, 74, 85, 87
Yersin, Alexandre, 62
Variola minor
, 74, 75, 87
Yersinia pestis
, 19–20, 33, 34, 36, 62, variolation, 85–86.
See also
vaccination 188–89n48
Verdi, Giuseppe,
La Traviata
, 94
Vermont, 71, 94, 95, 132, 133, 153,
Zambia, 162, 164
154, 182
Zimbabwe, 159, 160, 162
Vibrio cholerae
, 101, 108
Zinsser, Hans, 9, 80
Viravaidya, Mechai, 173
Zuma, Jacob, 166
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About the Author
John Aberth
received his PhD in medieval history from the University of Cambridge in England and has taught at various universities and colleges throughout Vermont, where he lives with his wife, horses, and cats. He specializes in the Black Death or plague of the late Middle Ages and is the author of
The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348–1350: A Brief History with Documents
, published with Bedford/St. Martin’s Press;
The First Horseman: Disease in Human History,
with Pearson/Prentice Hall; and
From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages,
with Routledge Press. He is currently working on a new book,
Doctoring the Black Death: The Late Medieval Medical Response to Epidemic Disease
, also to be published with Rowman & Littlefield.
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