📚 Disease Outbreaks

Books with disease outbreaks on their catalogue record, first published between 1720 and 2011, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject disease outbreaks in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 17,898 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Medical inquiries and observations	Benjamin Rush	1789	36
	The Black Death	Philip Ziegler	1969	34
	The Great Influenza	John M. Barry	2004	20
	Flu	Gina Kolata	1999	18
	The AIDS epidemic in San Francisco	Sally Smith Hughes	1995	17
	Animal plagues	George Fleming	1871	16
	Plagues and Peoples	William Hardy McNeill	1976	15
	The coming plague	Laurie Garrett	1994	14
	The Ghost Map	Steven Johnson	2006	13
	Infectious Diseases	Eskild Petersen	2011	10
	The Great Mortality	John Kelly	2005	9
	Loimologia: or, An historical account of the plague in London in 1665	Nathaniel Hodges	1720	7
	History of the epidemic yellow fever, at New Orleans, La., in 1853	Erasmus Darwin Fenner	1854	7
	The cholera years	Charles E. Rosenberg	1962	7
	America's Forgotten Pandemic	Alfred W. Crosby	1989	7
	The fourth horseman	Andrew Nikiforuk	1991	7
	Armies of Pestilence	R. S. Bray	1996	7
	Medical inquiries and observations	Benjamin Rush	1793	6
	A history of epidemics in Britain	Charles Creighton	1891	6
	The great plague in London in 1665	Walter George Bell	1924	6
	Plague	Charles T. Gregg	1978	6
	Epidemic	Brian R. Ward	2000	6
	A full and clear reply to Doct. Thomas Dale	Kirkpatrick, J.	1739	5
	Some account of the last yellow fever epidemic of British Guiana	Daniel Blair	1850	5
	The Great Pestilence In Virginia	William S. Forrest	1856	5
	Annual report	Egypt. Maṣlaḥat al-Ṣiḥḥah al-ʻUmūmīyah. Research Institute and Endemic Diseases Hospital	1932	5
	Epidemic disease in Mexico City, 1761-1813	Donald B. Cooper	1965	5
	Disease and history	Frederick Fox Cartwright	1972	5
	Plague	Michael Bliss	1991	5
	Epidemics and ideas	Terence O. Ranger	1992	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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