Historical Pandemics
For Further Reading:

The Black Death

Norman Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague.

John Kelly, The Great Mortality.

The topic is also covered in most histories of the Middle Ages and of the Hundred Years’ War.

Yellow Fever

J.R. McNeil, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.

Shinsuke Satsuma, Britain and Colonial Maritime War in the Early Eighteenth Century: Silver, Seapower and the Atlantic.

Rebecca Jo Tannenbaum, Health and Wellness in Colonial America.

1918 Influenza 

John Barry, The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 

Jeremy Brown, Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

Gina Kolata, Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It

Ebola 

C.J. Peters, Virus Hunters: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World.

Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come.

Richard Preston, Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus.

David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic.