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Title: Black Death by Gwyneth Cravens, John S. Marr ISBN: 0-525-18010-9 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: January, 1977 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $8.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: A fun and frightening forecast of a possible plague
Comment: This book helped spark my interest in epidemiology -- or should I say took it out of the boring tedium of academics and made it interesting. It was the precursor to the a genre that became popular within a few years of publication. What made the book fascinating was the author's nearly loving description of the organism Yersinia pestis and his command of the public health bureaucracy in a large city.

The story opens with a young woman returning from a camping trip in the western US, during which she was bitten by the flea vector of plague. Perhaps because she is very healthy, she progresses through the bubonic phase of the disease with little distress and becomes a pneumonic carrier -- that is she is able to transmit the bacteria directly via her respiratory tract.

In the dense population of New York, with a medical profession that has no familiarity with the disease or is symptoms, the plague goes undiagnised, untreated and spreads like wildfire. The bodies pile up, panic ensues, and the fun begins.

John Marr has just written a new novel, The Eleventh Plague, which I look forward to enjoying as much as this one.