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The Great Influenze - The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (Paperback, 2 Ed)
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The Great Influenze - The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (Paperback, 2 Ed)
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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"
is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us
with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics
looming on our own horizon. John M Barry has written a new
afterword for this edition that brings us up to speed on the
terrible threat of the avian flu and suggests ways in which we
might head off another flu pandemic.
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