Tracy Walker’s Reviews > Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them > Status Update

So far she covered the Antonine, Bubonic, and Dancing Plagues plus Smallpox. Descriptions of how the diseases affects the body or the cunning of the pathogen isn’t as horrifying as in Rabid by Bill Wasik nor does it have a deeply scientific feel. It’s more about what society was going through while the epidemic was happening and, so far, clumsy attempts at treatment.