This book begins with the Bubonic Plague that hit London in 1665-1666, that Daniel Defoe described in A Journal of the Plague Year -- written so many years after the actual event. The Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 has been described by a variety of authors, including Katherine Anne Porter and Thomas Wolfe.More recently, AIDS, Ebola and Covid-19 have been covered, as journalists would day, by Randy Shilts, Richard Preston and Lawrence Wright.There are graphic and horrific stories here about illnesses and deaths during plagues in the oast; and in the case of Covid-19 -- the plague that is with us still