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by Charles Kenny (Scribner £20, 320 pp) 
In 1962, the Nobel Prize-winning virologist Sir Frank Burnet wrote: The most likely forecast about the future of infectious disease is that it will be very dull.
After outbreaks in the past few decades of bird flu, Ebola, SARS and Covid-19, we know how very wrong he was.
Infectious disease has always been with us and arguably always will be. Charles Kenny s book is a lively survey of our millennia-long struggle to defeat it.
One of the first reliably recorded pandemics was in Athens in the 5th century BC. A thousand years later, Yersinia Pestis, the bacteria that caused the Black Death, paid its first visit to Mediterranean shores. The Byzantine historian Procopius described a pestilence, by which the whole human race came near to being annihilated . It returned to Europe most cruelly in the years 1348-9, when half the population may have died. ....

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