Download or read book Plague, Pox and Pandemics written by Howard Phillips and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decades, we have seen more than three dozen new infectious diseases appear, some of which could kill millions of people with one or two unlucky gene mutations or one or two unfavourable environmental changes.