Part One: Viruses, Plagues, and History
Chapter 01. A General Introduction
Chapter 02. Introduction to the Principles of Virology
Chapter 03. Introduction to the Principles of Immunology
Part Two: Success Stories
Chapter 04. Smallpox
Chapter 05. Yellow Fever
Chapter 06. Measles Virus
Chapter 07. Poliomyelitis
Chapter 08. Hepatitis Viruses: Oysters, Blood Transfusions, and Cancer
Part Three: Present and Future Challenges
Chapter 09. An Overview of Newly Emerging Viral Plagues: The Hemorrhagic Fevers and A Newly Mysterious Suspect of Viral
Disease, Acute Flaccid Paralysis
Chapter 10. Lassa Fever
Chapter 11. Ebola
Chapter 12. Hantavirus
Chapter 13. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS): The First Pandemic of the 21st Century,
and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and 2019-2020 Outbreak of 2019-nCoV
Chapter 14. West Nile Virus: Deaths of Crows and Humans
Chapter 15. Zika Comes to the Western Hemisphere and Americas: How, When, Consequences
Chapter 16. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV): AIDS, the Current Plague
Chapter 17. Mad Cow Disease and Englishmen: Dementia of Humans - Prions: Folding Protein Transmissible Diseases
Chapter 18. Influenza Virus, the Plague That Will Continue to Return
Chapter 19. Apathy and Ignorance: False Prophets of Autism and the Anti-Vaccine Movement
Chapter 20. Conclusions and Future Predictions