UPSC CDS GS General Knowledge Questions 1

(a) 'Plagues and Peoples' is a book on epidemiological history by William Hardy McNeil published in New York City in 1976. It was a critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of the extra ordinary impact of infectious disease on culture as a means of enemy attack.
The book ranges from examining the effects of small pox in Mexico, the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe.