Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1: Introduction -- 2: The War between Microbes and Men -- 3: Early Humans and Their Diseases -- 4: The Seeds of Change -- 5: Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Gene Wars -- 6: Invitation to a Minute Worm: The Schistosomes -- 7: Braving New Worlds: Invisible Enemies of Settlers -- 8: Domesticated Animals and Disease -- 9: Cows, Mycobacteria, and Tuberculosis -- 10: The Moral Disease: Leprosy -- 11: The Coming of Civilization -- 12: Syphilis: The Great Change Artist -- 13: Memories of Smallpox -- 14: Pestilence, Plague, and Rats -- 15: Of Lice and Men: Plus Ticks, Mites, and Chiggers -- 16: Marching to a New World Order: European Expansion and the Industrial Revolution -- 17: Easy Route to Fame and Gripe: Cholera, the Salmonella Gang, and Other Prominent Gut Bugs -- 18: Transoceanic Hitchhikers: Yellow Fever and Its Dengue Cousin -- 19: Food for Thought: The Mystery Diseases -- 20: The Globalization of Influenza -- 21: Diseases of Modern Civilization -- 22: The New Viral Wars and Sleeping Dragons -- 23: Back to the Future -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover.