Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic Of 1918 And The Search For The Virus That Caused It by Gina Kolata

Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic Of 1918 And The Search For The Virus That Caused It

Gina Kolata

342 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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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.The fascinating, true story o...

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