Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic
When we think of plagues we think of AIDS Ebola anthrax spores and of course the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated 40 million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today taking a comparable percentage of the U.S. population with it 1.5 million Americans would die.In Flu Gina Kolata an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. From Alaska to Norway from the streets of Hong Kong to the corridors of the White House Kolata tracks the race to recover the live pathogen and probes the fear that has impelled government policy.A gripping work of science writing Flu addresses the prospects for a great epidemics r
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