The great influenza : the story of the deadliest pandemic in history
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The great influenza : the story of the deadliest pandemic in history
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 2005
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"This edition with a new afterword published in Penguin books 2005"
Originally published: New York : Viking, c2004
Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-527) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Part I: The Warriors
Part II: The Swarm
Part III: The Tinderbox
Part IV: It Begins
Part V: Explosion
Part VI: The Pestilence
Part VII: The Race
Part VIII: The Tolling Of The Bell
Part IX: Lingerer
Part X: Endgame
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
