Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax

by Susan D. Jones

Book Overview

A disease of soil, animals, and people, anthrax has threatened lives for at least two thousand years. Farmers have long recognized its lasting virulence, but in our time, anthrax has been associated with terrorism and warfare. What accounts for this frightening transformation? Death in a Small Package recounts how this ubiquitous agricultural disease came to be one of the deadliest and most feared biological weapons in the world.

Bacillus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801896967
• ISBN13: 9780801896965
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher