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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• Contents
  
• Introduction
  
• Chapter 1: Plague
  
• Chapter 2: Smallpox
  
• Chapter 3: Tuberculosis
  
• Chapter 4: Cholera
  
• Chapter5: Influenza
  
• Chapter 6: AIDS
  
• Conclusion
  
• Notes
  
• Bibliography
  
• Index
  
• About the Author