Epidemics & Plagues explores killer diseases past and present, explaining how they spread rapidly to affect huge numbers of people worldwide. Read the appalling story of the Black Death that swept through medieval Europe, learn about a devastating smallpox epidemic in the Americas and find out about the catastrophic flu that followed the First World War. Peer under the microscope at the agents that cause cholera, tuberculosis, AIDS, malaria and avian flu, and investigate what can be done to stop them.