Pandemic Survival: It's Why You're Alive

Living proof --
Talk about sick! --
Bacterial invasion --
Viral attack --
Bugs and the bloodstream --
Lifestyle choices and chances --
Why soap and water? --
Wrath of the gods --
First epidemics --
or not --
the plague of Athens --
Death of a demigod --
Empire and epidemics --
Hippocrates and Galen --
miasmas and humors vs. the supernatural --
Leprosy : the wages of sin --
The Black Death (1348-1351) --
Living with death --
The art of death --
So you think you can dance? --
The English sweat --
Smallpox goes viral --
Contagion or conquest? old diseases meet new people --
Inoculation, vaccination, extinction --
Return to sender : syphilis and scurvy --
The black vomit aka yellow fever --
Superstition to science --
Cholera : death by drinking water --
Ignaz Semmelweis and Florence Nightingale --
connecting health and cleanliness --
Tuberculosis : what's romantic about coughing and spitting? --
The legacy of Louis Pasteur : from his laboratory to the sickbed --
World War I and the Spanish Flu --
Childhood diseases --
The impact of antibiotics --
The devastating polio epidemics --
Meningitis --
AIDS : a modern plague --
Jumping species --
SARS --
pandemic panic --
Biological warfare : then and now --
Are your vaccinations up-to-date? --
Big lessons from pandemics.