Diseases gave us the rise of Christianity, the end of the Aztecs and public sanitation. How might future plagues change human history?
- Written by: Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
Elena Mozhvilo/Unsplash, CC BY“Every once in a while a book lands on your desk that changes the way you perceive the world you live in, a book that fundamentally challenges your understanding of human history.” So began the blurb that came with this book. Aha! I thought. The usual advertising hyperbole, a gross exaggeration.
Yet Pathog...