History Smashers: Plagues and Pandemics
Kate Messner, illustrated by Falynn Koch
This nonfiction volume revisits epidemics from the Black Death through COVID-19, looking at bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis, polio, and influenza. It corrects a popular image of Black Death doctors: the herbal beaked masks associated with them came from a later plague outbreak and were not worn by most physicians. Sidebars, illustrations, photographs, and comics-style panels accompany its history of disease.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
