Ebook: The great influenza: the epic story of the deadliest pandemic in history
Author: Barry John M
- Tags: Influenza Epidemic 1918-1919, Influenza Epidemic 1918-1919--United States, MEDICAL--Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Medicine--United States--History--20th century, History, Influenza Epidemic 1918-1919 -- United States, Medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century, MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases, United States
- Year: 2004
- Publisher: Penguin
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, The Great Influenza.
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