The Black Death of the 14th century was the most terrible and notorious killer of its time. In this frightening book, Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan contradict what has been taught to every school child for the last 100 years and explain why the Black Death couldn't possibly have been bubonic plague. Instead, they assert, the infection must have been viral in origin and is still lurking somewhere in the world, waiting for the chance to return. The Black Death, or something like it, could re-emerge at any time, and with today's highly mobile society, the threat is becoming ever more likely.
The Black Death of the 14th century was the most terrible and notorious killer of its time. In this frightening book, Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan contradict what has been taught to every school child for the last 100 years and explain why the Black Death couldn't possibly have been bubonic plague. Instead, they assert, the infection must have been viral in origin and is still lurking somewhere in the world, waiting for the chance to return. The Black Death, or something like it, could re-emerge at any time, and with today's highly mobile society, the threat is becoming ever more likely.
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Autorenporträt
Susan Scott is a visionary leadership development guru committed to large scale and individual change. She is the founder of Fierce Inc, which offers corporate training programmes worldwide, helping some of the worlds biggest companies to transform their conversations and their business.
Inhaltsangabe
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?
