From the plague of Athens to the Covid-19 pandemic, Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses covers the history, causes, medical treatments, human responses, and aftermath of the world's biggest pandemics as well as several modern diseases of note and those that are making a comeback. It chronicles the plagues, pandemics, and other diseases that have inflicted man through the millennia, including the bubonic plague/black plague, which killed 30%-60% of Europe's population; the 1918 Spanish Flu; AIDS, and now Covid-19.