Great American Diseases: Their Effects on the Course of North American History presents medical history as it pertains to the major infectious diseases of North America. The book is designed to provide an interesting and engaging introduction to microbiology, immunology and epidemiology. With the advent of COVID-19, this book will serve as a reference on the history of previous epidemics. The book presents pandemics in an easy-to-read volume and provides concise chapters on the history of a disease, progression of understanding on the pathogen (agent of the disease), and their social ramifications through the history of North America. - 2023 PROSE Awards - Winner: Finalist: Reference Works - Biological and Life Sciences: Association of American Publishers - Focuses on the major infectious and parasitic diseases of North America - Provides historical and scientific information in an easy-to-digest volume - Includes an introduction to the basic science of bacteriology, virology, immunology and epidemiology

Dr. Ian R. Tizard is University Distinguished Professor of Immunology Emeritus at Texas A&M University (TAMU). He earned his Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery and Bachelor of Science in Pathology from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and obtained his PhD in immunology from the University of Cambridge. After completing his studies, Dr. Tizard became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Guelph, where he was awarded an honorary DSc in 2012 and he remained there as a professor until 1982 when he moved to TAMU. From 1999 until his retirement in 2017, Dr. Tizard had been the Richard M. Schubot Chair in Exotic Bird Health at the Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center, where he was a leader in the research of proventricular dilatation disease and avian bornavirus infection. He has authored the standard textbook on veterinary immunology since 1977, which is now in its 10th Edition and has been translated into eight languages. Dr. Tizard has taught immunology and "Great Diseases for about 25 years.

1. Infectious Diseases and their Causes 2. Immunity and Recovery from Infectious Diseases 3. Diseases among the First Inhabitants 4. Tuberculosis - Another Ancient Disease 5. Syphilis and the Columbian Exchange 6. Malaria - 1492 7. Smallpox - 1519 8. Measles - 1537 9. Typhoid and Typhus - 1607 10. Yellow Fever - 1647 11. Cholera - 1832 12. Poliomyelitis - 1841 13. Disease and the Civil War 14. Plague and San Francisco - 1900 15. Influenza - 1918 16. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - 1981 17. Panic and Neglect - 2000-2018 18. Another Respiratory Coronavirus; Covid-19 - 2020