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Return of the Black Death: The World's Greatest Serial Killer
ISBN: 978-0-470-09002-2
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318 pages
August 2004
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Preface.

Introduction.

Chapter 1: Birth of a serial killer.

Chapter 2: The Black Death crosses the Channel.

Chapter 3: After the Black Death: the French connection.

Chapter 4: Tentacles of the plague.

Chapter 5: England under siege.

Chapter 6: Portrait of an epidemic.

Chapter 7: The Great Plague of London.

Chapter 8: How bugs and germs operate.

Chapter 9: Building an identikit of the killer.

Chapter 10: Debunking history.

Chapter 11: Bubonic plague - a myth revisited.

Chapter 12: DNA analysis - a red herring.

Chapter 13: The true story of an historic village.

Chapter 14: The surprising link between AIDS and the Black Death.

Chapter 15: Assembling the jigsaw puzzle.

Chapter 16: The Black Death in hiding.

Chapter 17: Why did haemorrhagic plague suddenly disappear?

Chapter 18: The dangers of emergent diseases.

Chapter 19: The return of the Black Death?

Chapter 20: Is there something more terrible than the Black Death?

Further reading.

Index.

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