Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World by Robert S. Desowitz

Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World

Robert S. Desowitz

256 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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The anecdote-packed history of how tropical diseases (malaria, syphilis, Ebola, and tapeworm, among others) have come to thrive in North America -- the true story behind such books as The Hot Zone and Deadly Feasts.

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