The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to COVID-19

摘要

COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on 11 March 2020. By the end of September 2020, more than one million people had died of the disease. Mark Honigsbaum has written a timely account of infectious disease outbreaks over the last 100 years including the current Covid-19 pandemic.