A review by nikkithegeek
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It by Gina Kolata

2.0

Well, this was a big disappointment. It was the last of my non-fiction pandemic reading since we got into this mess about a year ago. It wasn't a bad book per se, I think it was well written and researched - but I expected something completely different. I expected to learn something about the Flu in 1918. I did not. There was very little about the flu itself, most of the book was dedicated to the virus, not the illness and to the scientists who searched for it and hoped to get to know it. There were a lot of laboratory procedures and quite a lot of digging in permafrost and some chapters were more or less just resumees of the scientists themselves. Definitely not what I was signing up for.