The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in HistoryAt 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 suggest ways in which we might head off another flu pandemic. |
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User Review - RajivC - LibraryThingThis book by John Barry is excellent. I must confess that, when I started the book, I was not sure why he spoke about the history of the John Hopkins Institute or the Rockefeller Institute. However ... Read full review
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User Review - rsummer - LibraryThingMuch of this book covers medical history and the development of decent medical schools in the U.S.A. along with researchers in microbiology. There is mention that this influenza affected the world yet ... Read full review
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History John M. Barry Limited preview - 2005 |
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History John M. Barry Limited preview - 2005 |