Where can you find out about the plague and Huntington's chorea, sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, Stendhal syndrome and the mysterious beriberi? From a medical reference book of diseases - you will say, and you will be wrong, because there is no better way to find a hundred symptoms of a terrible infection in yourself than inappropriate reading of boring encyclopedias. But if you want to read about diseases, but don’t become a hypochondriac? Alexey Paevsky and Anna Khoruzhaya, participants in the Neuronews project and co-authors, will come to the rescue. They know exactly how to talk about the history of the development of medicine in an interesting way and without horror stories! “Actually, a plague!” and the epidemics of our time" is a book dedicated to the most interesting, in the authors’ opinion, stories of the discovery and treatment of mysterious diseases from the time of Avicenna to the present day. The publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.